Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diverse assortment of upper-level courses on many topics, with little in common but a generally high quality of teaching, perphas the most meaningful bond...
...requires a man to have an understanding of some of the greater problems of the sciences that may bring his destruction, and a satisfactory means of providing it in Harvard College must be found. The lower-level offering is now adequate, but impending retirements may threaten it soon. The upper-level courses are insufficient...
Quality of Upper Courses...
...characterized by its lack of character. Endless rows of matchbox houses for the time-payment crowd, and for the upper sets, homes that outdo each other in picture windows, angular shininess. Except where, in the cities overflowing with decaying brownstones, in grey-flannelled Suburbia, and in the changeless and countless small towns, beauty is scarce; where there is little demand for it, there is little supply...
...club. The Charley Grays may occasionally get high there beyond the point of no return, or men in grey flannel suits may make unconvincing passes at fellow members' wives, but no one ever did a full-dress, inside-the-country-club story-until that Boswell of the American upper middle class, John P. Marquand, took on the task. Life at Happy Knoll (a series of sketches that first appeared in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED) is deftly ironic social comedy, as slight as the shorts of Happy Knoll's women members and as smooth as the club's putting greens...