Word: helping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This summer you received a reading list. And because you thirst for knowledge, you have read each book carefully, checked out some contemporary criticism, and jotted down a few random notes to help guide your discussions with friends and roommates. If you did all these things, you are at the wrong school, pointy-head. The proper response to your roommates scholarly query, "What did you think of those books?" is, "What books?" or "Let's smoke some dope...
...major areas--Literature and Arts, Historical Study, Social Analysis and Moral Reasoning, Foreign Languages and Cultures, and Sciences--that would contain a number of precisely-defined courses designed to teach specific "modes of thought." This year, Rosovsky and other faculty members set about drawing up these courses--with the help of a few token students forbidden to talk to their peers about the shape of the Core. When the courses were unveiled this spring, many students wondered again what the fuss was all about. At first glance, the courses seemed as diffuse and specialized as Ged Ed. This fall, however...
...help me up the stairs with this desk, Ron?" I asked tonelessly. "I'll take...
...therafter--about advanced standing requirements, about extracurricular activities, about your psychotic roommate who threatened your life--you're much better off approaching a middle-level bureaucrat on his own turf than shooting too high. These men tend to share a thorough competence in their fields, and a willingness to help students as long as they accept certain ground rules...
John R. Marquand and Judith B. Walzer, the assistant deans of the Faculty, are both extremely knowledgable about the College bureaucracy and might be able to help you find ways out of your difficulties that your adviser or proctor would be unable to suggest...