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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a decade, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (often called the World Bank) has been instrumental in financing projects designed to raise the standard of living of the underdeveloped nations of Asia and Africa...
Harvard professors usually earn their position and achieve eminence as scholars and not teachers. Sometimes the brilliant scholar is also a vivid lecturer, but too often students are subjected to mediocre presentations of material easily available in textbooks...
...while those students with fellowships get experience in teaching, too often their students become mistreated guinea pigs. Lack of any training in teaching is often reflected by the section man who lectures pompously to a dozen students as if they were a gathering of hundreds, or by the one who trusts to luck that students will have questions to keep the hour lively...
...These people," he continues, "are often very concerned about their own identity, who they are, and if Harvard has any meaning to this identity. Most of them view their problem in physically overwhelming terms, that of ordering their cosmos, of finding their place in the the universe. Sometimes there are other questions, such as "Am I a homosexual?' but these are only sub-forms; the main question is asked in cosmological terms. When they do come back to Harvard the reaction to these questions might be summarized, 'I still wonder about all that, but it doesn't matter as much...
...charges made by Ryan were contained in a letter of resignation submitted to the Committee yesterday. He criticized "the secrecy, the half-truths and often whole lies, the ruthlessness, and the constant plotting that has gone on," as well as Winans' activities in the New England Intercollegiate Young Democrats...