Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems logical that any new living space opened up would attract students who wish to room with new friends outside their present House. Normally, inter-House shifting is taboo, and Wigg and Claverly offer but a minimum of relief (and Wigg will be all-freshman next year anyway). Moving to any new House also offers a tactful excuse for leaving present roommates and escaping tensions. "There's always a push and a pull in these moves," Riesman hays, "and the roommate situation may well be either...
...alumnus cannot offer more to a football player than he can to a regular candidate, since all admissions and scholarship decisions are made in University Hall. If "alumni recruiting" has had any major effect, it has been to interest the alumnus in all types of candidates and to stimulate scholarship fund-raising activity in the Harvard Clubs...
There is no sense offering further specialization to those who do not want it, however. A student who has chosen his own program of "general education" or pre-med distribution--as opposed to intense concentration--may not wish to go out of his way to read more scholarly works in his field than his department demands. If he is majoring in government, he might prefer a tutorial in which he could read and discuss "Great Books" in economics, history, sociology, or anthropology to a strictly governmental tutorial. Or, if he were taking an upper-level English course which...
...Marburg under a pudgy intellectual martinet, Professor Hermann Cohen, a disciple of Hegel and Kant. In the Gothic-fairy-tale mountain town of Marburg, with its steeply sloping streets and medieval gables, his first serious love came to 18-year-old Boris Pasternak. When the girl turned down his offer of marriage, "[I found] my face was twitching and my eyes constantly filled with tears...
Having been deprived this year of the traditional services of Christmas music by the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society in Memorial Church, the faithful trooped over to Sanders last Friday evening to hear the same forces, joined by the Bach Society Orchestra, offer season's greetings to the Cambridge community. Despite the changed locale and program, the atmosphere, which makes these concerts an annual success, was unchanged; and if the performances were not classically ideal, the large audience seemed, nevertheless, very well satisfied...