Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thinking and feeling which will occasionally rub off if there is sufficient enforced exposure, and that in some mysterious way people will be the better for acquiring this habit. At least this seems to be the theory behind both the maze of often contradictory demands made upon Harvard undergraduates, and the claims made by administrators...
...nature of that pattern, ambiguous though it is, is perhaps best seen by looking at what Harvard demands of its students, for Harvard's only working definition to "a liberal education" is found in the requirements which are imposed upon its students...
Harvard's first demand upon Rumplestiltskin was excellence in whatever he did. He was supposed to do everything well, and always to try to do it better...
Overwhelmed with his own success he often fooled even himself into thinking that he was becoming something more than human, and began to believe that a liberal education was worth more than he had originally thought. He was only slightly disturbed upon those occasions on which he noticed that these symbolic manipulations were of absolutely no relevance to any of his most imminent dreams, and seldom if ever seemed to stir him from his invariably supine intellectual position...
...while the lack of commitment to a discipline could upon occasion lead to objectivity about the divergent approaches, it more often led to the irrelevancy of the material studied. The student who looked at a discipline from the outside seldom found it possible to use this approach for dealing with anything which really mattered to him He found himself regarding the academic life as a meaningless game, a juggling of materials into circular and therefore meaningless patterns. And so Rumplestiltskin was forced either to ignore what he was learning or else to stride pensively up and down his Elsinore posing...