Word: sections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost every "news" article--even those in the "Atmosphere" section--ends with a piously optimistic paragraph. The faults which are found with Harvard and the various Harvard systems are handled curtly, if at all, yet the overall impression of each article is generally insufficient to support the hopeful conclusions. Perhaps the malaise which the editors feel is so subjective and individualistic that it is inexpressible. Indeed, the various mood pieces in 323 reflect only personal unhappiness. General conclusions or even general sentiments never emerge. It is fair to ask whether the editors who have covered the Harvard scene so thoroughly...
...poetry" (p. 43); "Scotch, tweed, Eliot (House?) were the parameters" (p. 53); "hurried up Mass. Ave. toward the graveyard at the corner of Garden" (p. 47); "up to the small graveyard at the corner of Garden Street" (p. 146). The only two really rewarding parts of the "Atmosphere" section are Richard H. Seder's long, but very readable and, I found, rather moving poem on the frustrations of communicating love, and an excellent, but unfortunately anonymous photographic essay called "Impressions of the Night...
Technically, 323 is a fine production. There are some sloppy layouts in the section on professors, a few typographical slip-ups, and some inexcusable group photographs (though group photographs are deadly dull anyway). But the artistic standards are generally high and generally fulfilled. The fact that neither the articles nor the photographs are credited to particular individuals bars some from praise and saves others from censure...
Noting that the section system was originally designed to provide intimate discussion under stimulating leadership--(also the goal of Monro's seminars), Nash said that sections are "not as brilliant a success as they were." Although he sympathized with Monro in theory, he explained that the graduate students who lead sections "may be the great minds of tomorrow, but not of today...
...commuter myth is a tenuous one at best: students who represent a narrow economic, social, intellectual, and geographical section of the Harvard community are supposed to become members of a typical Harvard House--Dudley--while remaining part of the undergraduate community. The weaknesses of this ideal are needlessly strained, however, by the present eating arrangements for Freshman commuters...