Word: parte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before making revisions, however, the CEP will have to consider the availability of Faculty time and the interest on the part of Freshmen in taking part in seminars or tutorials. Ford felt that the program should not be compulsory...
...activity, take on a new status, not only as student qua student, but also as student qua leader. The member of Student Council, the president of the Lampoon, the president of the Young Republican Club can no longer regard his extracurricular activity as merely extracurricular. It is a part of his curriculum, and it affects his standing in the community and his regard for himself. In his tutorial group he may flounder about for the answer, and blench under the cool satire of his tutor, but once inside his office he is a different person. This double role may conceivably...
With an effort on the part of all to bring a greater degree of mutual understanding to this community, a greater value on "official or personal standards" can be set, providing a more indicative and more responsible system of representation. The condition which Henry Adams lamented has existed at Harvard College for too long
This attitude is similar, and perhaps a result of, a third possible cause of the problem: the generally laissez-faire attitude of the Faculty and the administration. Harvard is uniquely fortunate in having an enlightened administration which believes that a part of education as important as formal instruction is the teaching of the student to plan and regulate his own life. The freedom of publications and other organizations to print and say whatever they wish and, within certain minimal boundaries, do whatever they wish is found at few other colleges. It forces upon the Harvard undergraduate a degree of maturity...
...problems inherent in a community whose inhabitants deny the possibility of being represented cannot be solved by citing a moral maxim. Rather one might ask for an increased awareness of the problem, on the part of everyone at Harvard, and the awareness of his relationship to the Harvard community. The student is not just an independent thinker, cut off from all about him; by choosing to study at Harvard rather than with a private tutor at home, he commits himself to participation in the College community. This includes the commitment to provide for as adequate representation of students...