Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home field, Penn can be even more difficult. Two years ago, an underdog Quaker team crushed the Crimson, 6 to 2, at Philadelphia. Pennsylvania has the narrowest field in the League, and only the Quakers seem to know just how to play...
...learning as shown in the laudable efforts of president Gaylord P. Harnwell to raise the school's standards. On the other, many students refuse to grow up; this immaturity, born in the undergraduate body and often unwittingly cultivated by the faculty and administration, makes the University of Pennsylvania seem at times like high school revisited...
...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 boy who is absolutely fascinating...
...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 homogenity to heterogeneity, Pitt's argument loses its validity. Winn asserts that Penn has "less conformity than you'll find in other Ivy colleges," but he nearly defeats his own point when he says "You can't tell a Wharton student from a College...
Still, Bradley says the freedom allowed instructors--"they can teach their courses any way they see fit"--can be bad, as well as good. "If there were more supervision, shabby work would be reduced." To some, this may seem contradictory. Further-more, "If I want to say something radical, I don't have to worry," says Bradley. He conveys the impression of a University based, from the President down to the students, on individualism and responsibility. This view is the one the administration and faculty put forth to the world, and it is probably the one they believe. Yet some...