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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School Has Shown Growth...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Education School Plans To Construct Building | 10/15/1959 | See Source »

Until the School raises more money, though, Keppel said no architects can be hired to make the exact drawings necessary for construction...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Education School Plans To Construct Building | 10/15/1959 | See Source »

...half of the issue (it starts from both back and front and reads into the middle like a high school humor magazine) is devoted to the poetry of Mark J. Mirsky, David Landan, and Thomas Weisbuch, all Harvard undergraduates. Mirsky's poems are mostly short, tight sketches, upon banal subjects, revealing a certain sensitivity, but constantly becoming fouled in their own language. There are technical errors in many of these poems, inaccuracies of expression, inconsistencies in metaphor (even louts, when angry, do not grin, etc.) and a rough, amateurish quality in word choice. There is, however, a certain crude gentleness...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Identity | 10/15/1959 | See Source »

...caricatured college "types" immediately come to mind: the scientist whose world becomes identified with the laboratory, for whom equations assume a greater importance than people; or the prep school socialites whose snobberies are merely confirmed and intensified during four years in Cambridge. These extremes, if they exist at all, are far outnumbered by students who do think about morality, and occasionally even worry over it, but whose thinking is sporadic and undirected and whose worries are easily pushed aside by more immediate problems, academic, social, or financial...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: 'Moral Philosophy' in a Secular University | 10/15/1959 | See Source »

Discussion of careers among undergraduates is surprisingly limited, and decisions concerning them are in many cases not reached even by the end of senior year. With fellowships relatively easy to come by, and graduate school always available as a last resort, the decision can be postponed until "something comes up," and no decision at all is required. Vocational guidance counselors are clearly not the answer, but a liberal arts college should counterbalance its aims in general education by stimulating its students to reflect upon "their duty, and the reasons...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: 'Moral Philosophy' in a Secular University | 10/15/1959 | See Source »

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