Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Monro's proposal to put non-Honors tutorial under supervision of the General Education Committee is at once a marriage of convenience and a major step in educational policy. The utility of placing the new program under an existing interdepartmental administrative committee was clear to the Masters, but the real opportunity presented should not be obscured by the burdens which will be imposed on the Committee...
...hide his opinion that the undergraduate part of the University badly needed reorganizing. On numerous occasions he had uncompromisingly opposed Eliot's approval of both the free election system and the three year degree, so that by the time of Eliot's resignation, Lowell had made it entirely clear that he disapproved of the College's present condition...
...wouldn't be Eliot's choice for a successor, but then he knew as well that Eliot wasn't doing the choosing. In fact, the chairman of the selection committee asked to consider 24 possible names later reported, "It took about one look at the list to make it clear that the only real candidate was A. Lawrence Lowell." A scant two weeks later, Lowell's election had been confirmed by both the Corporation and the Overseers...
...characteristics, notably a way of writing in flat tones of a world that is bleak arid joyless, where people lead lives hollow of meaning, sensing dimly-or failing to sense-that they are victims of existence. Very little happens; predicaments are preferred to events, and orderly progression of time, clear distinction between reality and hallucination are likely to be missing...