Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gone are the days when Crimson fans had to sit on bare Soldiers Field benches when watching varsity football games--gone, that is for those who don't mind the payment of a nominal...
Students and faculty members who are over 21. sound of mind, and residents of Cambridge can register for approaching elections this week and the next at the Cambridge Administration Building at central Square between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and between...
Quest Within Quest. A Spanish squire named Alonso Quijana, "tall, lean, lanky, with cheeks that appeared to be kissing each other on the inside of his mouth, [and a] neck half a yard long and uncommonly brown," goes clear out of his mind from reading tales of knight-errantry. Renaming himself Don Quixote, and his jag-jointed nag Rocinante (translation: formerly a hack), the madman enlists a local farmer, one Sancho Panza, as his squire. Breathing the name of his ladylove, Dulcinea del Toboso (in real life a husky farm girl named Aldonza Lorenzo that he has never said...
...feel that communists are especially desirable on a faculty. My faith, if there is any left to me, is in the undogmatic mind, the mind free to exam data without pro-conclusion and to aim for the conclusion implicit in the data itself. No party-liner--communist, catholic, bible-fundamentalist, shintoist, or what you will-is wholly free to observe this process, and to the extent that he is not free he is undesirable as an instructor in most courses, particularly in those courses where the nature of the material seeks to discover questions rather than mechanical answers...
...selection, however, must be left to the administrative discretion of the college presidents. I doubt that the assistance of the Massachusetts General Assembly is necessary for the survival of the free mind in our schools. I rather suspect, in fact, that our administrators are better qualified to determine a curriculum, than are our representatives at the State House. I must certainly continue to insist that attempts to legislate controls upon our schools are more dangerous than a communist here and there could hope to be. John Clardi