Word: interests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...founded his present firm, Ivor B. Clark Inc., and rode out the Depression comfortably by finding money for needy Wall Street investors to whom banks refused to lend a dime. Among his financial sources: Eccentric Millionheiress Hetty Green, who collected as much as 10% interest...
...here between religious thought and religious practice, where church attendance is regarded as secondary to theological speculation. This physical separation from the centers of religious gathering encourages eclecticism and free choice among religious doctrines, and is considered by most observers, local ministers included, to be rather a good thing. "Interest in religion here is keen and sharp," the Rev. Richard E. Mumma of the First Congregational Church has asserted, "one uses his head as much as anything else in being religious." A similar view was expressed by the Rev. Ronald D. Maitland, Acting Chaplain of Christ Church (Episcopal...
...year for juniors, the new seminar system represents the University's most promising educational development since the advent of General Education more than a decade ago. Both last year's and this year's innovations move Harvard education beyond the predominant, formal course system, which can often stunt intellectual interest by Procrustean requirements...
...Office of Advanced Standing. And upon this office has now devolved the job of maintaining some semblance of order amidst the welter of different, and sometimes conflicting, ideas that surround the Freshman Program Byron R. Stookey '54, Associate Director of this office, describes its work as that of "stimulating interest in this kind of undertaking, of finding people willing to do it, of talking over credit arrangements, of creating space for the workshops, of locating all problems of detail and trying to get them squared away, of doing some preliminary work in approaching students, of being a communications center...
...give the project a degree of concreteness, and three weeks ago a "catalogue" was sent to freshmen listing 22 proposed study groups. Entitled the "Freshman Seminar Program," the groups will include a total of 150 to 175 freshmen, who in many cases need qualify only with "enthusiasm and lively interest." Despite the fact that the program has been established well enough to present a seminar curriculum, the ideas and opinions of its organizers are still in a state of flux. Approach a dozen men leading seminar groups and a dozen different ideas can be gleaned on what should be done...