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...windows of the Voice--big ones that look out on a wide prospect of Greenwich Avenue. His vision is far from universal: when he is not looking at his urban, liberal, Freudian, cultural (if not always cultured), ostentatiously enlightened milieu, he is looking at other things from its viewpoint. Anyone who belongs to this milieu, or who can temporarily or permanently assimilate into it (which is easy, after a few years at Harvard), will find both books full of old friends sensitively observed and old enemies devastatingly put down. For any outsiders doing research on the attributes and attitudes...
...universities, Pusey said, are the proper places for pure research, for in them the scientist is free to follow, without the pressure of deadlines, the scholars' "desire to know." From such a viewpoint, the oft-voiced opinion that science is incompatible with the humanistic tradition of Harvard would be greatly undermined...
Speaking from "an academic viewpoint," Carl Kaysen, professor of Economics, called for co-operation with state universities in setting up any additional prerequisites. "This is an oligopoly market," he stated, "and we must think what our competitors will...
...proposal is appealing from the viewpoint of House life, for it balances the exclusive representation of the Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences with the less academic, professional fields, such as medicine, business and law. But, more important, it is an economical solution to what could be an unpleasant financial problem. Both of the alternates--deconversion of overcrowded suites by putting students into the vacated rooms, and use of the empty rooms for non-resident tutors' offices--would force the present number of students to pay for a larger number of rooms--presumably through a sizable increase in room rents...
Mixed tutorial as held in the Houses at present was approved by a majority of the delegates, who commented that separate tutorials lack "creative discussion" and the "stimulation of the masculine viewpoint." Others expressed the opinion that, in separate tutorials, girls tend to get poorer tutors...