Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Keith Kane '22, a member of the Corporation's sub-committee on honorary degrees, said in an interview last spring that the Corporation grants the honorary degrees "with the idea in mind of bringing honor to Harvard. Thus we do not choose people who are controversial...
...ARTICLE entitled 'Sexual Role Exploitation,' in the first issue of The Old Mole, the writer suggests that one way of restoring dignity to male-female relationships is to have girls pay their own expenses when they go out with boys. This idea is sensible since it would assure that girls would go out only with people they genuinely liked. Besides, paying for a girl does, in some vital way, destroy her standing as an individual. The French copains after all operate on the principle of sharing expenses and they know more about love than most...
...August 28, the government had a meeting in the Zocalo. All government employees were compelled to attend. About 30,000 government employees came. Many of them sympathized with the students and opposed the idea of the meeting. The government called the red and black flag further evidence of the communist nature of the student revolution. The students were called anti-patriotic for daring to fly a flag alongside of the Mexican flag. The ringing of the church bells was cited as anti-religious. Thus it was clear, according to the government, that the students were against the Church, against...
...idea of giving junior faculty, and in many cases teaching fellows, their own courses, is still objectionable to some traditionalists. Unlike tutorial, where the junior faculty are more or less limited by departmental rules, house courses give tutors almost unchecked freedom to run the course the way they want...
...seminars really are changing the character of the houses, it is all for the best, Chalmers argues. He says that A. Lawrence Lowell's conception of the houses as purely social rather than academic units is as anachronistic as the idea that house libraries should be gentlemen's reading rooms, and that the traditional separation of "intellectual" activity in the houses from "academics" serves no useful function...