Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of classical education in secondary schools such a course would be unnecessary. However, with Latin and Greek no longer in favor and Bible reading for its own sake almost a thing of the past, some means must be found to make the myth, not the footnote, come alive for modern students. It seems sentimental to believe that a student who has already passed the language requirement will begin a program of Greek in order to read Homer in the original. It is not unrealistic, however, to study classical works in translation as myths which are to occur again...
...college, through a standard of technique necessary for academic success, must inevitably impose some measure of intellectual uniformity on its students. At Harvard, this technique involves an ever-increasing awareness of subjectivity in approaching academic problems. This is paralleled and reinforced by the Eastern tendency to evaluate people in psychological and economic terms, with less emphasis on appearance and immediate impressions. The underlying tone of circumspection and distrust, intensified by the double thrust of college and community, can but impose an extreme self-consciousness on the student. This creates a kind of intellectual narcissism, as well as a false identification...
...step removed from gulibility, and two from stupidity. The mistrust of naturalness, of sincerity, and of humility, all of which are connected in the Harvard mind with ingenuousness, follows logically. The seasoned Harvardman is guarded and suspicious without provocation; if this is an unavoidable transformation which every student must under-go, then Harvard cannot claim to be a truly liberal intellectual community...
College may not be the proper time for this kind of sympathetic attitude; it is the time for scepticism. But scepticism need not be hostile; nor must selfconscious awareness of subjectivity prevent emotional involvement. Nothing would be more absurd than to strive for an artificial warmth or some sort of reinfused provincialism. Kindness and enthusiasm are natural qualities; the problem is to preserve them through college. Harvard offers a challenge to the student to maintain his intellectual intergrity in the face of the fashionable consensus, and to observe, while at college, the standards by which he intends to lead...
...same alarm as those in Nyasaland. The natives of the Gothic fen seem to have no objective so clear as the Africans, though they do perhaps possess their own inscrutable reasons for breaking up a premature St. Patrick's Day celebration. Spring may be muddy in Cambridge, but it must be especially lonely in New Haven, and the Yalies probably need to sublimate their seasonal hormonal energy...