Word: governmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A majority of Radcliffe students replying to a recent Student Government Association poll on the use of the library overwhelmingly rejected a suggestion to extend the closing hour from 10 to 11 p.m. The questionnaire quoted library officials as stating that reserve books would have to circulate for overnight use...
The students attend class six hours each day, including Saturday and Sunday, from 1 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 9 P.M. For the most part, one man, either LeFevre or a guest lecturer, talks uninterruptedly; some time there are discussions among the class. The most common form of...
The Freedom School teaches, essentially, the freedom of individual man and the injustice of institutional force. To the school's devotees, life's two worst evils are taxes and schools. Taxes are a highly objectionable example of the coerciveness that necessitates the eventual abolition of central government. Compulsory public school...
Since no undergraduate department would take him up on the idea of general examinations. Lowell turned to the graduate schools. The Medical School was the first to think favorably of his plan and accordingly, in 1911, the graduating class there took the first compulsory generals in University history. The next...
At times this position seemed risky; often it was nearly untenable. But Lowell always maintained it, and especially so after 1919 when he published his now-classic interpretation of academic freedom. In the middle of the Boston police strike of that year, Harold J. Laski, a young government instructor at...