Word: settings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a place for the Catholic at Harvard, and there are many Catholics trying to find it. But not without risks. The basic mathematics concerning loss of faith scares some, shocks others, but we mentioned the lack of finality in our figures--and especially in this particular set--due to the small numbers and also to the uncertain effect of time. If asked by some Catholic we didn't know whether he should come to Harvard we would have no ready reply--it's too individual a matter
...pupil too must become in some sense a split person if he holds some truths, explicitly or implicitly, as sacrosanct. He must adopt the methods of Descartes, who wished to examine all truths, yet simultaneously set aside certain ethical and religious maxims for everyday life. The University demands a perpetual examination, a faith in nonfaith, a paradoxical commitment to noncommitment which produces an academic dualism that reflects well the conflicts of the twentieth century.PAUL TILLICH 'Scholarship as Ultimate Concern...
...many formal exchanges. As Dean Bundy puts it, "we get an uncommonly large and peppy group of people here, and many of us have felt a continuing need to find new ways of sustaining the excitement these people have when they come to Harvard." Under the present set-up--the inference seems quite apparent, if not explicit--this excitement is not always sustained. Freshmen find themselves suddenly thrust into huge lecture-courses, and (once again in Bundy's words) "the meaning of the course is somehow lost in the taking of it...The Faculty is an exciting faculty...
...called the "tutorial" kind of workshop. Other examples could just as easily be drawn from the fields of anthropology, behavioral science, biology, chemistry, and history." All of these are seemingly alike in attempting to adapt to the freshman year educational procedures which are already a part of the Harvard set...
...olds ("Our children are to be seduced from their parents"), and almost coming to arms with Henry Clay over a speech against the invasion of Canada. ("As it respects the Southern and Western men, they shall learn from me, if from no one else, that they are not to set up standards of duty and decorum for my part of the country. While I have tongue or pen, the ignorant part of the nation shall not assume to itself with impunity to lord over the intelligent, nor the vicious over the virtuous...