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Some of the customary advice-to-Freshmen still applies. It's usually divided into two parts, the curricular and the otherwise, and the schism stands in spite of all the transformations. In his studies, the new Harvard man nearly always finds his greatest difficulty not in a newly uncovered ignorance, but in simple fear. There is no blinking the fact that instruction by lecture is a terrifying method when you're not inured to it, and it is equally useless to deny that course work can be harrowing, especially in a jazzed-up Summer Session. Luckily, however, the instructors...
Bisexual. All human beings, Critic Fausset observes, are to some extent bisexual. But Whitman had a great deal more of the woman in him than men normally have. This schism in his nature, Fausset believes, was in part the source of such greatness as he had. It was also the chief source of his failures. Whitman's femininity gave him his tremendous powers for the passive absorption of experience, for sympathy, for the almost bottomless endurance (as in the Civil War hospitals) of massive suffering. But it also accounts for the sentimentality, effusiveness, extreme over-assertiveness, pseudo-masculinity...
...years off & on Author Paul lived on the rue de la Huchette and watched with interest and partisan passion the political schism that split the side street, like the rest of France, into two great hostile camps. But Author Paul's political concern lacks the gusto of his human ribaldry. There is a suggestion that the citizenry of the rue de la Huchette are somehow symbolic of democracy everywhere and that, if they had run things, the Nazis would never have got to Paris. But in view of all that goes before, their pathos...
...President William Green, C.I.O. President Philip Murray to close for the duration the schism between the two labor organizations. With a smile and shake of the hand the labor leaders agreed, went to work at once on a joint labor-policy statement on priorities, rationing and wages, to serve as wartime standards for all unions...
...result of an offer to sing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Glee Club found it necessary to split with the Banjo and Mandolin in 1919. This schism caused a great deal of trouble in the College...