Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Such a view, however, does not consider the non-academic factors of college education. A community of scholars is a worthy ideal for a university, but not necessarily for an undergraduate body. The four undergraduate years are supposed to provide a "liberal education," not a mere preview of professional, graduate scholasticism, and the notion of diversity lies at the basis of this goal of liberal education. With the press of applicants constantly growing, Harvard could easily fill its classes in a few years from the members of any relatively homogeneous group, whether such a group consist of those who come...
...recent deaths of some forty black Africans in civil disturbances in Nyasaland contrasts sharply with the image of a harmonious multi-racial state which Britain had in view when she formed the Central African Federation...
...opposing view was stated by Alice J. Hendrickson '60. Noting that small classes have the "obvious advantages of closer student-faculty contact and opportunity for student self-expression," Miss Hendrickson pointed out that controlled discussions often provided valuable educational experience...
Oxbridge dons are inclined to be testy about the junketing. Said one last week: "These young gentlemen go out to Pakistan or somewhere and get garlands of marigolds draped around their necks. But from the scientific point of view, they aren't doing much good." Another grumbled wearily that "these people go out and grab every _ beetle they can lay hands on and bring jars and jars of them back to us." Expeditioneers ignore such grousing. Said one jungle-happy scholar: "Oxford's a terrific base camp...
...Mistress (Japanese). A beautifully Eastern view of the rise of a fallen woman, who struggles to submit to nature rather than to the Western way of struggling against...