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Late in the summer, the word "Seminar" was added to give the project a degree of concreteness, and three weeks ago a "catalogue" was sent to freshmen listing 22 proposed study groups. Entitled the "Freshman Seminar Program," the groups will include a total of 150 to 175 freshmen, who in many cases need qualify only with "enthusiasm and lively interest." Despite the fact that the program has been established well enough to present a seminar curriculum, the ideas and opinions of its organizers are still in a state of flux. Approach a dozen men leading seminar groups and a dozen...
...variety of intelligence-levels. Whereas most of the tutorial-type workshops will be geared to "exceptional students," Riesman stresses that his group wants the average freshman, too. This difference has led to a further difference in recruiting methods. Riesman's staff has not sought out particular freshmen, but has sent a letter to all the members of '63, simply "inviting" their participation. Meanwhile, on behalf of all work-shops but Riesman's, the Office of Advanced Standing sent additional solicitations to about 175 students whose school record seems to indicate special competence in their particular field...
...this climate of semantic "moderation," economic proposals that might have sent people to jail not long ago and are still denounced as dangerously radical, find remarkable acceptance within the College community. Harvard Square has not been treated to a healthy radical pamphlet in years, it is true, and even private discussion of politics has shrunk to an alarming minimum. But in the libraries and lecture halls, students are quietly absorbing the economic and political beliefs of those whom most "conservatives" bitingly call the "left-wingers...
...text of the questionnaire, which was sent out to 400 undergraduates, is reproduced below. About 319 returns were obtained, a response of 78 per cent. Certain questions and responses have been deleted for considerations of space; however, these are covered in the specific articles, especially the features on politics and on Catholics, Protestants, and Jews at Harvard...
...spirit of anything to be found in the Hebrew of the Old Testament or the Hellenic Greek of the New. The idea of God as an ineffable opaque Presence, as the principle of causality, or as "the Ground of Being" and "Being-in-Itself" would surely have sent Abraham and Moses, Mary and the Magdalene, Saints Peter and Paul, into gales of reverent laughter; such a rarified and remote ontological abstraction or inarticulate mood of awe would seem an uncomprehending parody of the inexhaustibly rich and concrete Personality whose love and rage and will they each had known with such...