Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aspects of the undergraduate tutorial program upon which there is general agreement is that the system must be drastically revamped if it is to realize its potential...
Several possibilities do, however, suggest themselves. In the first place, it is obvious that an effective tutorial program can hardly expect to rely upon GSAS students to any substantial extent. These men are almost always too involved in their own courses and research to dedicate time and interest to undergraduate education. The fact that they do not currently find that tutorial requires more time than they can give is hardly relevant, since they rarely give enough time to make the program significant...
...these suggestions are contingent upon one hypothesis, the hypothesis that the capacity to read a book or to observe facts, even when coupled with the capacity to write papers and examinations, is seldom equivalent to education...
Chafee said he did not advocate laws that would destroy "out long-cherished ideal of responsible states operating within a national framework," and that "chief reliance must be placed upon communities where violations of human rights are in danger of taking place...
...levels together in a social community. Undergraduates, graduates and senior faculty, it felt, had spread themselves all over Cambridge, and had made the University merely a meeting ground for the fleeting hours of morning classes. The Houses, it believed, were ideally suited to make Harvard an intellectual community based upon social as well as academic contact. Implementing this thinking, it arranged to install graduate students, at a ratio of about one to every ten undergraduates, in the Houses...