Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less tangible and therefore more difficult to assess are the so-called "psychological" advantages of belonging to a women's college. Men, in particular, are quick to assume that for a girl "it is better to have an identification with a women's college," as John U. Munro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, has put it. Moreover, he, like many other Harvard alumni, admits to having "an entrenched instinct for Harvard as a men's college...
Goodhart spoke on the subject of higher education as exemplified by the Harvard Law School. "It is meaningless to speak of education in the abstract," he said. "There must be some particular object...
...Europe, he said, the primary aim of education was the understanding of ideas. In America, the emphasis is put more on understanding of "fellow men." For this reason, he continued, "two million American parents with no particular interest in scholarship send their students to college every year...
...that they value the traditional moral virtues, that they feel a need for religion, but that religion does not carry over to guide their important secular decisions, that they are dutifully responsive towards government, and that they set great stock by college in general and their own college in particular. "For the most part," he concludes, "a campus 'norm' of values prevails in the 1950's, coast to coast, at state university or denominational college, for the Ivy Leaguer or the city college commuter...
...illustrate what the faculty is doing and thinking, the movie will concentrate on one particular member: Ernest R. May, assistant professor of History. He will be followed during a typical day, starting from the time he leaves his home in Lexington and takes the Boston and Maine Railroad to North Cambridge. Such a depiction should by its very nature interest alumni; it will also point out, however, how hard faculty members must work, how low, comparatively, are their salaries, and how difficult it is to find decent, reasonably priced homes in Cambridge...