Word: schoolings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flatly and, at times, angrily contradicting each other's arguments, Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, Professor of Law, and L. Brent Bozell, Washington correspondent for the National Review, clashed last night over the loyalty affidavit in the National Defense Education Act. The debate took place at the Boston College Law School Forum before a packed auditorium...
...near-mimicry of high school carries over into the classroom. Few lecture courses are given in the University's undergraduate program, and virtually none in the Wharton School. There are, in most courses, regular assignments, frequent quizzes, and emphasis on recitation. The degree requirements in the College ask only that the student compile 32 semester credits of a total of 128 in his major field; there are no general examinations. Although students evince great conscientiousness about class attendance--perhaps since the administration permits only six cuts per course per term--intellectual concern does not extend to the dormitories, dining halls...
Peters calls Penn, with its conformists and non-conformists, fraternity members and dormitory inhabitants, and foreign and domestic students, "the most complex of the Ivy schools." But certain aspects of the administration's wide-eyed reaction to the off-the-beaten-path undergraduates suggests Penn is not so catholic as it might seem. Dean Pitt, arguing the case for diversity, used for an example, "Rick Cuthbert, our hurdles record-holder. He's a fraternity member, but he lives in a dorm because he wants to meet all sorts of interesting people. He has just met a Chinese...
Members of the administration become highly annoyed at the suggestion that Penn, for all its efforts, is still the school of the Ivy look and the organization man. "The 'Ivy League look' is the business--an awful phrase," Pitt maintains. "In fact, Dean Bender of Harvard wrote the Ivy admissions directors a letter offering a bottle of whiskey for the man who could think of a new name." Pitt tries to prove his point by quoting students who usually complain that "there are not enough people like themselves, rather than the reverse." Yet, if the students themselves seem to prefer...
Four of the Russian group are staying in the Houses, two at the Business School, and the four women at Radcliffe...