Word: pressinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Orwell once observed that the death of the soul, Western civilization's renunciation of the belief in immortality, makes the fate of this world immensely the more serious; it could be a spur to a radicalism almost frenetic, hysterical, insane--though Nietzsche's phrase seems more appropriate here: "a...
It would seem that the last vestige of capriciousness and malpractice in Cambridge has slipped away without anyone noticing. The City Council could threaten students with no more than the loss of pinball machines. In the Administration, every gear seems well-oiled, every cog in place: from course reduction to...
Of all the problems, the most pressing was finding a successor to McElroy as Defense Secretary-or persuading him to stay on. Last week McElroy had two talks with the President and a constant stream of Pentagon interviews about prospective recruits for Defense. Administration leaders grimly watched him hunt hardest...
The decision to make Dudley a "House" and to give commuters a separate facility of their own is an unfortunate solution to one of the College's most pressing problems. Ever-rising costs make the commuter a necessity, but the thirty years since the Houses were established have amply demonstrated...
It would be impossible to run the University or the College if every administrative decision were referred to the Faculty. Yet there comes, every few years, a critical problem which needs such discussion, and which would benefit substantially from thorough consideration by non-Administrators. Perhaps the revision of the Freshman...