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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman year would be improved if freshmen lived in the Houses. Life in the Houses is generally considered one of Harvard's main advantages, and is usually considered far more pleasant than the freshman year by upperclassmen. The intellectual superiority of House life over that of the communal bathrooms of the Yard and the stock-yard Union is rarely denied. Students should be drawn into this more vital experience for their freshman year...
...main arguments advanced by the Administration for the advisability of a year in the Yard are: that it provides a more gradual transition to college life than the Houses; that it gives freshmen their own set of activities; that freshmen meet more people and develop more "class spirit" than they would in the Houses; that a freshman is helped by being surrounded by people "in the same boat"; and that upperclassmen would be a harmful influence on a student's life so early in his undergraduate career...
...were indeed delighted to see that the CRIMSON had expressed itself firmly on the Algerian problem. While in full accord with the main line of your article, we should nonetheless like to point out what are, to our minds at least, slight discrepancies...
...skull, one above each eye and two in the back of the head. On a rolling table, the patient was wheeled back so that his head was under a stereotaxic (space-positioning) instrument. A pin on a micrometer mounting fitted into each burr hole. X rays revealed the main landmarks inside the skull. They could not show the elusive ansa lenticularis but its position was determined from them. Coordinates were carefully noted...
...this time, the scene has been fully set, the professor has partially solved or at least defined his problem, and it is perhaps easier to write about him with consistency. In the beginning, though, it seemed as if the writer, no less than the main character, didn't know where he was going and therefore had to spell things out. A selectivity more on the level of that displayed toward the end could have greatly helped the story achieve a "most proper tone" rather than simply a "proper tone." As it stands now, the contrast between the professor's richly...