Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, in 20th century America, it does seem slightly ignotum per ignotius to reduce education to self-directed abortive confusion. What ever happened to Socratic midwifery of the mind...
...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...
...vision is unsettling and thought-provoking. Its still difficult to accept wholly but it is clear to me at least that self-searching along these lines will be necessary, a steeling of the mind to reject any lavish but corrupt opportunities that may beckon in favor of a simpler and more frugal, but more satisfying, life...
...Alexander is on the one hand quite right: for anyone is mistaken who came here expecting to be entertained at lectures delivered by professors passionately devoted to capturing forever the adolescent mind; they are indeed too busy with their own concerns for that. The sad truth is, however, that not only at Harvard, but in every school, the only intellectual stimulation of lasting value is from within a student himself; no classroom, however glittering, can goad him to an end he is loath to achieve. The professors Mr. Alexander describes have failed indeed: but they have failed in the impossible...
Kennedy and McCarthy forces have worked together since the spring and will in the future. The party has lost for too long--even a few of the more conservative office-holders wouldn't mind the McCarthyites helping to rebuild. By 1970 or 1972 the Washington party will probably be in McCarthyite hands...