Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without analyzing individual courses, it seems fair to say that the educational means employed are perfectly suitable, once the validity of a lecture-system is admitted. All sorts of variations in the lecture-section pattern exist...
...students. He notes that college tends to move students toward a greater uniformity and at the same time somewhat more flexibility of social outlook, but he feels that these are changes on the surface of personality, and do not involve the fundamental values which shape a student's life pattern. "They certainly do not support the widely held assumption that a college education has an important, general, almost certain 'liberalizing' effect," he claims...
Perhaps the Dean was trying to say that there is a pattern of life which is contagious, a way of thinking and feeling which will occasionally rub off if there is sufficient enforced exposure, and that in some mysterious way people will be the better for acquiring this habit. At least this seems to be the theory behind both the maze of often contradictory demands made upon Harvard undergraduates, and the claims made by administrators...
...nature of that pattern, ambiguous though it is, is perhaps best seen by looking at what Harvard demands of its students, for Harvard's only working definition to "a liberal education" is found in the requirements which are imposed upon its students...
...dynamic element in the human situation, and to treat all ideas as forms of other ideas, just as he had learned to treat all behavior as a substitute for some other kind of repressed behavior. And when he had related the configuration of events to the total pattern of incidental perceptions he found that a meaningful relationship existed between the transient and the intransient elements of the situation, which was worth an 'A' and therefore equated with intellectual excellence...