Word: school
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the game finally does end for him this spring, St. John will probably spend a summer working for presidential candidate John Connally, with his next stop probably business school...
...want young people today to know the freedoms I enjoyed while I was in high school," he said...
...arts as a full-time occupation do not belong within a university. In this it conforms to universities in other parts of the world. If Harvard also excluded other professions, Law, Medicine, Business, etc., then there would be some justification for excluding artists. But, on the contrary, the professional schools have an enormous impact on undergraduates: in my years in Cambridge, it was an impact that far outweighed the 'liberal arts' tradition of the college. At the present time Harvard is caught in a paradoxical situation. It has admitted the necessity of practice in the creative arts as a complement...
...with dates and monuments and biographies. Every Italian town is a patchwork of architectural styles that children learn to identify. They are spoon-fea Church history, the history of the communist party, the history of the resistance, they memorize long lists of names and dates, and finally in high school they study both Italian and European history with great thoroughness. As a result the interaction between a society and its culture is something that they have a basic instinct for. Americans, when they start to study European culture have no historical foundation at all on which to build. This...
...plain north of Parma stands a shining monument to the Harvard Business School. The largest pasta factory in Italy, it now produces more than a fifth of all the spaghetti eaten here. It is American owned and run according to all the newest methods. All steel and glass, humming machinery, it is a symbol of the new Italy, the post-war industrial revolution that has transformed a rural agricultural-based economy into a modern industrial state. Northern Italians have watched that transformation: the grandparents belong to a rural world, a preindustrial way of life that had continued almost unchanged...