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...universities for good teaching. “Universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want to restore a Druid priesthood, you cannot do it by offering prizes for Druid-of-the-Year. If you want Druids, you must grow forests.” We all know that it takes decades to grow a forest, and no institution can afford to wait decades to create an environment in which great courses will spontaneously emerge and good teaching will thrive...
...Retrospect January 30, 1956 After four years of swimming in a national goldfish bowl, it is easy for the casual undergraduate to grow as indifferent to the changes within his Cambridge world as to development without. Perhaps, therefore, our readers will pardon the Crimson editors’ annual urge to review the past year’s developments before they depart from their notepad pinnacle for more academic file cards. Our only conclusion at such close range can be that it has been a good year for historians and for sorcerers, and that it has been a year of expansion...
...growing satisfaction with my experience is based on the lasting image of the school that I am now constructing out of my most poignant and meaningful memories here. It’s the conversations I’ve had, the network I’ll continue to spin that is so remarkable. With each academic or social frustration has come realizations and rationalizations that have helped me to grow and learn in a way that physics labs and response papers never could...
...very different experience from mine.”LEGACY OF AN ACTIVISTA Crimson article from 1981 quotes one professor as saying, “It will all blow over when Schatz graduates.”But the gay rights movement at the College continued to grow after his graduation.“I recall that there was a growingly active gay rights movement and I think this period coincides with much more discussion and action in society,” Rosovsky says.Schatz characterizes his tenure as GSA president as a period of tension, calling the late 1970s...
...central--far more central than sex. You can keep a population going by having sex once a year, but you have to eat three times a day." Food comes so easily to us now, he says, that we have lost a sense of its significance. When we had to grow the corn and fight off predators, meals included a serving of gratitude. "It's like the American Indians. When they killed a deer, they said a prayer over it," says Fox. "That is civilization. It is an act of politeness over food. Fast food has killed this. We have reduced...