Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baroja's disciple. In this novel the hero, Shanti, is a Basque sea captain who tells his own story, noting: "A strange existence is mine, and that of other wanderers. During one long epoch, all is adventure, events; and then, in another, there is nothing but commentary on past events." The combination of violent action and desperate search for the meaning of action marks every Hemingway hero, from the young American ambulance driver in World War I to the old fisherman, far out at sea, engaged in his biggest struggle. The same combination of events and commentary, held...
Roman Catholicism seems to be one of the least understood and most frequently misrepresented of religions, perhaps especially at Harvard. From the return of polls it is difficult to draw sweeping statistical generalizations on Catholic students. Only 23 Catholics, past and present, answered questionnaires; one of the 23 is a convert and the others were born Catholics. Of those, however, who were reared in a Catholic tradition, almost one fourth now declare themselves to be "agnostics" or "atheists." Another six retain formal affiliation with the Church but partially withhold intellectual assent or seem lax in their religious practices, though they...
General unanimity seems to exist that Harvard is secular, despite its Protestant Divinity School. Harvard's present secularist position, though, represents the end product of a long evolution, and the vestiges of earlier evidences of a sectarian and religious past have sometimes caused friction...
...past, the academic side of freshman year has proved challenging to many students but impersonal and boring to as many others. To the one eighth of the class of '63 who will participate in one or two of the new freshman seminars, the academic experience involved could prove one of their most fruitful at Harvard...
...under the watchful eye of its Faculty Committee) that approached those of the Program-teachers who did not first volunteer their services. In making these overtures the Office was guided by only two considerations. It sought to get a good distribution of fields; and also to find professors whose past record and current reputation suggested that they might be especially adept in a very close kind of student-teacher situation...