Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whiting prefers the system used in Cambridge because "it gives the student more opportunity to take advanced courses and to go ahead intellectually." This blending tends to give the Harvard man a stronger sense of professionalism with regard to his field of concentration, according to professor Owen. Because of this, however, "the resistance to taking work outside the field of concentration is greater here...
...elect people on a basis of creative merit, he points out, then undergraduates might really begin to care about joining. The Clubs would become a generally recognized elite, and the punching season would become a bitter college-wide scramble. There seems little chance, however, that the Clubs will take a turn in this direction...
Despite the dim view that University Hall may take of the Clubs, there is little likelihood that Harvard will ever officially abolish them. In the first place, the administration takes quite seriously Harvard's tradition of giving students free reign until they interfere with others...
...take the common councillor long to find Harvard an unparalled source of humor and self-advancement in Ward 17. He had long admired the well-oiled machine of New York's Tammany Hall, which, in a modest way, his own Roxbury Tammany Club recreated. Partly because many of his constituents could not yet read a ballot, Curley made a more educational enterprise of his club. He invited speakers from outside the ward. Whatever the topic, he assured them all of an intelligent and sympathetic audience. Thus their dual function was to provide the ward with entertainment as well as enlightenment...
...University has no plans to go into the housing business," Teele said. He emphasized that Harvard is interested only in promoting the cooperative house, and plans to take no other part in its operation or construction. In examining the project, the University has been working with the Committee for Cambridge and reportedly with M.I.T. officials...