Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard had led the swing to cafeteria-style learning (where students pick & choose what they want to learn) in the days of President Charles W. (Five-Foot Shelf) Eliot. And it was Harvard, under President James Bryant Conant, that in August most clearly denned the swing back-to required courses, a "core curriculum." Colgate was already at it when Harvard's famed report on General Education in a Free Society appeared. Princeton, Yale and a score of other colleges have likewise heralded a new dawn of coherence...
Robert Hutchins, Chancellor of the University of Chicago, who believes that a right good education can be packed into less than a five-foot shelf, picked the world's "ten greatest books" for readers of the Chicago Daily News. His list: Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics & Politics, Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, St. Augustine's City of God, Aquinas' Treatise on God & Treatise on Man, Dante's Divine Comedy, Shakespeare's Works, Pascal's Meditations, Tolstoy's War & Peace. He did not list the Bible...
...that he has extended his work beyond the bounds of easel painting, Junyer's Manhattan studio looks more like a handyman's workshop than a painter's retreat. On a shelf rests his most prized possession, a scrapbook about the great Barcelona rugby team of 1924-25, amateur champions of Spain. He was scrum half...
...azaleas in the hotel lobbies, and giving their identities away with their long Russian cigarets. Some of them, arriving without proper headgear, visited a store and bought felt hats. The clerks carefully creased the hats. The Russians as carefully uncreased them, restoring the round newness of hats on a shelf...
Each morning the Igorot women line up beside the road, standing or squatting like bright salt shakers on a shelf, awaiting their orders for the day. They are modestly clothed, many in American house dresses, though their men frequently wear only loose-tailed shirts and red G-strings...