Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next House-to-be has probably begun. The urbane stateliness of the present Houses is regretably too costly for the College to duplicate; thus with the realization that the break with tradition has now been irrevocably made, some Housing suggestions for the new era are offered in the spirit of modernism...
...spirit of Harvard's venerable tradition of eclecticism that the next House should be fashioned. Combining the appearance of Lamont and the forbidden city of Peking, the new House could perhaps be built as a Bauhaus Pagoda. Corridors could run in circles around a central elevator shaft, while a facing of gilded gargoyles could garnish the outside...
Unimpaired Spirit. Henderson's book not only introduces haiku in the clear accompanying text, but is the first really successful attempt at haiku translation. Through it, haiku may well become a fad on U.S. campuses. A professor of Japanese at Columbia University before his retirement four years ago, Henderson inherited from his father a love of Japanese art and literature, nourished by several long visits to the country. Existing haiku translations dismayed him. Most of his 375 translations rhyme, on the very reasonable premise that Japanese haiku might rhyme too but for the limitations of a language in which...
Above all, Henderson's patient translations (one took him 25 years) capture, unimpaired, the evanescent haiku spirit, which has enchanted Japan for untold centuries...
...result of these reforms--and in some respects they are most worthwhile--cannot yet be clearly gauged. Only one statistical piece of evidence has so far been submitted as proof of the growing stature of the academic spirit. The intentions of the Class of 1958, polled prior to graduation, revealed that sixty-five per cent more of '58 than of '57 planned to continue academic training at graduate schools of arts and sciences. Nearly ninety per cent of the best scholars in the class planned to study for a Ph.D. degree, intending presumably to go into college teaching...