Word: public
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private schools, Phillips Andover has sent the most (30-40) students to Harvard this year. Boston Latin, with 18 students, leads the public school representation...
...following excerpts from "DeLoon's Practical Guide to the Passing on of Knowledge," by the late Hadley Warner DeLoon (1883-1968), Jane Thunderbold Professor of Arts and Crafts, are here reprinted as a public service. We have long suspected the existence of such a document, but only recently came into its possession-after a fruitful journey through the DeLoon family crypt...
Undoubtedly a discreet policy would dictate keeping as much as possible of this sentimental mush from the public. but the CRIMSON was not proud about "earnestly requesting contributions" back in 1873, and it is doubtful that it will be humble about announcing in the years to come that it has managed to survive without them...
...without privacy and without time. It is hard to use even the freedom one does have, for it is hard to realize it is there. The noise of the dorm fills up the spaces and presses in on the people living there, sounds, words, commands-the voice of the public consciousness. The constricted space of plural living is a sign or sorrow. Free, open space is needed for the fortuitous and the unforeseen to occur, for the emotionally neutral and the amplitude of life everyone has a right to expect...
...problem: Cambridge is now undergoing a period of agonizing change, a period which will almost certainly create a city substantially different from today's or that of twenty years ago. The universities are usually only indirectly responsible for the changes, yet since they are the bodies most in the public view, criticism has been concentrated on them...