Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council has recently completed an investigation of the former problem as it relates to the position of Class Marshal, one of the positions Adams had in mind 50 years ago. Shaken by the uproar over the Marshal election in November, the Council has attempted to devise some revision of election procedures to make Class Marshals more "representative...
...attitude of "The hell with them" usually breeds the resolve no longer to care what "they" think, and to discard the notion, or what is by now the pretense, of being a representative. The student-leader's guiding motive shifts from the electorate to his own mind, or his own desires; the rationale is no longer representation, but power; not altruism, but egoism. And with this comes the abnegation of responsibility, a ram pant evil among Harvard undergraduates...
...another Faculty attitude comes to mind, which appears unrelated to the present problem, but is still relevant to administration laissez-faire and general Yard apathy. One cannot help but note certain professors who appear rather bored with their large lecture courses, and House tutors who dislike to sit with students at dinner, a growing phenomenon noted by the Council Committee on the Houses. The sight of a tutor entering a dining hall, looking about in vain for his graduate friends, and proceeding to sit alone at an empty table, is a distressing one for the student who would like...
They said it couldn't be done. They said you could never make a movie out of The Sound and the Fury. Too complex. Too confusing. Whole thing takes place in some blithering idiot's mind. They said it could never be made into a movie...
...last three OSS men in Germany when the group was disbanded, Ford had his most interesting experience after V-E Day. In line with his work on political reorganization, he sat in on interviews with captured generals. His closest contact was with General Guderian, whose mind he characterizes as "naive politically, but brilliant and retentive." The former chief of the German General Staff provided for the trial of his colleagues...