Word: owning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Refusing to comment on the effectiveness of the present porter system, Burke stated that his office would readily comply with any decision of the Masters. He said also that students would undoubtedly benefit from "learning to keep their own nests clean."
"The middle culture is mass culture with a fig leaf," he continued, "While it pleases a crowd, it has high cultural pretensions." MacDonald cited the Saturday Review, Herman Wouk's novels, J.B., and his own New Yorker as examples of "midcult."
A gift of $500,000 "to encourage spiritual communication between men of different religious faiths" will make the construction possible. By means of a "sympathetic study of the religions of the world," each scholar in the center "may gain a clear insight and firmer faith in the truth of his...
Any non-Honors tutorial should be voluntary, interdepartmental, and House-oriented as much as possible. A student could join a small group that would combine related fields, such as History, Government and Economics; English and History; or Social Relations and Government. (The smaller fields have in many cases offered their...
Wald, in fact, is the first important scientist in years to take an active interest in teaching his own Nat Sci course. His interest, in addition to that of Professor Purcell, is an encouraging sign that General Education may become the concern of the department rather than that of a...