Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religion thus seems a necessity in a college which desires to maintain diversity without strife and to provide a haven for many points of view. Buttrick recognizes this necessity. In his course on the New Testament, Humanities 124, he is concerned with showing the influence of Biblical "categories of thought." He states that "a university is for understanding. Our concern is not to say whether you should believe or not believe." Buttrick thus provides another example of the split that exists in the University teacher who is a committed man--the instructor who does believe and is convinced that...
Rabbi Gold sees the student in a quandry, suffering from two basic deficiencies: first, he has no fundamental understanding of himself as a Jew; and second, he has no exposure to varieties of thought. "The Jewish student begins to see his Judaism through Christian glasses. This is deplorable, since it distorts his understanding of himself as a Jew. One has to know who he is as a Jew before being exposed to the Christian views...
...distinctly lighted in the Class Marshal elections of the Class of '59. For the last few years it has not been unusual for the First Marshal to be elected with only a fifth of the votes in his Class. However, in the Class of 1959, the First Marshal was thought "unrepresentative" by several hundred of his classmates. Ironically enough, the Class of 1959 was brought to unified Class action because of its extreme diversity...
George Clark, professor of Zoology, agreed and pointed out that catfish and eels do not migrate. He said he thought it likely that an anaerobic condition exists in the Charles River water that forces the fish to the top, where they are snapped up by the gulls...
...twenty-fifth reunion when it returns to the Harvard of 1984. Until it can, the Class can rest content with the judgments of two of the University's top administrators. Dean Bender has said that the Class of '59 contains "an extraordinary number of extraordinary characters." And Dean Monro thought that '59 will prove itself "one heck of a good class." The Class of 1959 can reserve its own judgment until it returns to Harvard in 1984.DEAN BENDER...