Word: rigorousity
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Sea & Life. Outward Bound is a cold-shower-like British idea, begun in 1941 by Founder Kurt Hahn of Scotland's rugged Gordonstoun School* (TIME, Nov. 14, 1960) and London Shipping Magnate Lawrence Holt, who were alarmed at the number of seamen lost in World War II because they...
These are, however, observations on Schoenberg, who is somewhat easier to criticize on the basis of Monday's concert than are the Brandeis Players. Schoenberg himself would have been hard put to secure a more rigorous interpretation of the score than theirs. "Pierrot Lunaire" is complex and difficult; the Brandeis...
A few of the essays, however, are in themselves wonderful, thoughtful examples of young critical thinking at its best. Paul De Man (since lost to Cornell) contributes an essay on Wordsworth and Yeats; he is probably the most rigorous "close reader" of the bunch, and his essay successfully solves the...
Refute Muckrakers. Neither Henderson nor Moore are innkeepers at heart. They started out after World War I with $1,000 and a vague desire to refute those muckrakers who argued that no business could grow big without violating ethical standards. In 1931, after trying every thing from radio manufacturing to...
Underlying the qualms some Faculty members have about giving up examinations are fears that students might abuse an examination-free system. To them, examinations constitute a control which assures that students will not "get by" without doing their course work. William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, whose courses...