Word: two
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leadership of the new movement at Harvard has been vested in two outstanding men, Geary and Stein. Geary has paid particular attention to the reconstruction of Boylston Hall, especially the language laboratory. He often wanders through the unfinished building, checking equipment, making sure the lab is operating correctly, and acting as a sort of overseer for the project. The laboratory, his main interest, has received much of his attention...
Stein has been more concerned with a reorganization of elementary German courses. A professor at Columbia until a year ago, Stein headed their exceptionally successful modern language program, so well that Levin deems him "the best man in the country for teaching beginning German." He teaches two sections, one in German B and one in German C, and an upper-level course; he also heads a group of five instructors and fifteen part-time assistants ("all in training to become language teachers") concerned with lower-level German instruction. Stein came to Harvard convinced of the value of the direct method...
Contrasting with this central love affair, a pair of ultra-sophisticated demi-mondaines cross "our boy and girl's" path, yawning at each other with remarks such as, "Is this your lighter that I found under my pillow, or does it belong to Jacques?" While these two sip cognac in a fancy burlesque, "our two" gulp coffee at a sidewalk cafe. Both women call their lovers "Mon Petit." When one Mon Petit loses his duck, Napoleon, the other Mon Petit wonders why anyone would bother to put a string around a duckling's neck. This dichotomy arises often enough...
...avoid the problem of cost, said John E. Finley, Master of Eliot House, Eliot will use adjoining suites to create larger units. A deconverted double, he explained, would join an unconverted triple, thus allowing five students to use four bedrooms and two living rooms...
...Two experts expressed skepticism last night over the significance of a dispatch in yesterday's Christian Science Monitor, reporting that General de Gaulle is about to lead France out of NATO...