Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge Drama Festival, Inc., strangely resembles that of the now defunct Brattle Theater Group, which produced plays for three years--1949-52--in the Brattle Theater and last summer revived itself to do a Shakespeare Festival. But the reason for this connection is not that the Festival is a mere continuation of the Brattle, but rather that the men who operated the old company are the best qualified people to handle...
Hanson's view of his role may be somewhat broader than Martin's, but both are considerably above the mere study-card level. They are both easily available to students; both know the University well enough to guide a troubled advisee to the proper person or department; and both are wary of definite formulations of what an adviser should...
These three types of advisers--the resident proctor who has a chance to know his advisees well, the non-resident adviser who nevertheless tries to be something more than a mere giver of directions, and the non-resident who may become a good friend of his advisee but who sees his main job as cutting through Harvard red tape--cannot be arbitrarily separated. At any one time or with any one student, any of these advisers may cross over into the other's territory with no thought at all about a theory of advising. An advising system as amorphous...
...about 25 percent of the advisers are in the field of science. Leroy S. Rouner '53, assistant dean of Freshmen in charge of assigning advisers, says that he would not assign all the scientists to science even if he could, for "that" would set the adviser up as a mere dispenser of information. The adviser should know the correct details about the field, of course, but he certainly does not have to be a physicist...
...cherished stigmata of the True Artist-a "slight figure and sensitive face, dark eyes and delicate pallor," and at every crisis he coughs blood. His father is appalled when Stephen insists he Wants To Paint. "To throw away your brilliant prospects, wreck your whole career, for a mere whim," he wails. Stephen is adamant: "The only thing that mattered was this creative instinct that burned within him." He Renounces All, including the love of the neighboring squire's daughter, a girl with an "air of quiet composure, a sense of inescapable good breeding," who appreciates "the essential fineness...