Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gunter feels Berlin students and teachers, since their university is practically a living protest against Communism, tend to form the most democratic academic body in West Germany. Fraternities and dueling societies, long the stronghold of nationalistic, anti-semitic, and aristocratic traditions, exert almost no influence on the Berlin campus. Of the few which exist despite non-recognition by the University, a number have abandoned all objectionable traits. Anti-Americanism, according to Gunter, is also sparse, since Berliners in general have felt particular gratitude toward the U.S. ever since the 1948 airlift. The University in particular is thankful for continued...
Gunter finds that courses at Harvard tend to restrict students and lecturers along a "uniform path of regulations." While the lack of requirements and outlines for Berlin courses sometimes leads to extremes of laziness or diligence, it does allow each individual at the University to use his own judgement in choosing materials and setting a working pace...
...might add that TIME'S readers tend to be careful newspaper readers, too, and generally keep us posted on the state of the world's press (including TIME) as they...
Concerts of old music tend to elicit in the performers a misplaced picty that results in a persistently dragging tempo. With the sole exception of a 12th-century hymn to St. Magnus, no piece on the program suffered in this respect...
...interest in courses which do not obviously contribute to their occupational objectives. The students are not entirely to blame, however. Medical schools, for instance, contribute to overspecialization by suggesting lists of "recommended" science courses beyond the necessary minimum. As a result, say the authors, premeds interested in the humanities tend to forego courses in literature in order to study more chemistry...