Word: subs
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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...
John E. Moss (D-Cal.) wrote Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson last week, forwarding a University request to have material accumulated during the war declassified. Moss, chairman of a House sub-committee on Government Information, said the material occupied "badly needed library space equivalent to a room 100 by 70 feet, packed tightly from floor to ceiling." He said storage costs amounted to $1200 per year...
...Moss' sub-committee has conducted an insistent series of inquiries into executive department secrecy policies in the last few years...
...Extracurricular activities have hindered academic interest due to the concept of the successful Yale man. This is a concept where the good student is sub-ordinated to a perverted notion of the 'well-rounded' person. If there is to be a revival of academic interest at Yale, then there will have to be a de-emphasis in the whole sphere of extracurricular activities. The recent creation of the Ivy League is a significant step in preventing undue emphasis on athletics...
...this unique microcosm, Cambridge, where every social and economic level in the country can be found, there also is a sub-culture; its idols aren't individuals, who can be pinned down and publicized, and it is not without a kind of cause, but it is a rebellion all the same...