Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...succeeded quite well since then. Several thousand students have now received a sub-lethal dose of a few great books and some impressive ideas. They not only exchange them at cocktail parties, but also sit up for hours in Holworthy or Matthews arguing about them. Those early-morning hours are when Gen Ed succeeds most...
...basic aims have not changed much since 1943, but they seem all the more vital today in a post-war America that seems content with Herman Wouk or Anne Morrow Lindbergh as culture, or will sit by quietly as it is told that nuclear radiation is a) dangerous, b) harmless, c) over its head, or d) none of its business...
There is much to be done. If one can ever sit back and relax about an educational problem, he cannot do it yet aboutGen Ed. But there is room for a feeling of accomplishment. In the words of one professor of long standing, "General Education, for all its defects in execution, aims at a useful goal, and whatever its failings may have been, has had 'successes' which more than counter-balance them, 'successes' of a sort less commonly achieved when Gen Ed was not in existence."KENNETH B. MURDOCK Chairman of the Committee on General Education...
...other level of contact was referred to as the earthly, where "the teacher sits on the same level as the student, discussing the truth as it appears to each." While it is highly dubious that a University Professor will sit with a freshman discussing truth, it is possible that in the House dining halls, in an occasional meeting during office hours, and hopefully at an open house, a professor might chat with students more often than at present...
Spring had finally really arrived, and at various places around the Square and the Yard it was beginning to show. Passing the Music Box record shop on Holyoke Street, one could see two Harvard men sit down before a phonograph and begin to listen to all the 5000 records in the store. The one who went to sleep first lost, but got $10 anyway; the winner received $25. Paramount and M-G-M sent news cameramen and Fox Movietone was reported to be interested in recording the event...