Word: taking
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...institutions simply stabilize and give meaning to the middle class truisms with which the student left high school. With a few exceptions, of which Harvard is apparently one, the American college seems to accelerate students' assimilation into the dominant marketplace culture, rather than channeling or redirecting their growth. Students take new ideas seriously only when their college sub-culture makes the old outlook inapproprate. This means that the whole college atmosphere must be distincly "un-American," either because the scholars infiltrate undergraduate life (as in some small colleges), or because the student body is pre-selected to deviate from national...
...Sarah Lawrence conference. its leaders. Usually this pattern is more or less hereditary, with people learning their roles by continual exposure since childhood to the prerequisite values and attitudes. Professional people learn the mores of professionalism by having professional parents, and businessmen are raised from childhood to take over father's business. But in our highly complex society this system is inadequate, because successful people do not have enough intelligent children to replenish the ever growing technocracy. As a result the society must recruit part of its responsible and talented elite from the unelite...
...want to take a long-range view of the problem," explained Perkins, "and not rush into a non-Honors program before we examine the effects of our revamped tutorial system...
...Eastern policy, the U.S. has made the mistake of "unleashing Chiang Kai-shek," Bowles contended. Bowles also has "never felt that the Baghdad Pact made sense," and he charged that the American policy in the Middle East is irrationally based on four men "of whom not one could take out an insurance policy...
...wants to juice with, by Christ." Sometimes, however, there are people who don't, for various reasons, make the grade. Last year these unfortunates went to Prospect Club, a cooperative eating society of relatively minor social status. This year, even Prospect has decided to be more exclusive. It will take anybody, but it won't take them at the last minute, as it did previously...