Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Redbook was also a result of similar experiments at the University of Chicago and at Columbia which captured the imagination of teachers and scholars two decades ago. With the waning of enthusiasm for these two leaders, however, Harvard's program has also suffered. In addition, both the College and the national temper seem to have moved away from the very idea of General Education...
...unless general Faculty support can be obtained, he is afraid that the program will virtually collapse. One of the great fears Murdock holds, in common with many other members of the Committee, is that Harvard will acquire a faculty of General Education like that which the Chicago and Columbia experiments created. Such a division, he feels, would be disastrous not only for the program but for the College as a whole. Others of the Committee agree with him. They recall what happened at Chicago when two faculties were created: complete scism between general education and the rest of the curriculum...
...Cornell totaled 129 points for fifth, and Dartmouth took sixth with 146. The varsity had 160 points for a safe edge over eighth-place Princeton. Penn and Columbia trailed...
...disappointments were Princeton's Mike Kingston and Penn's Earnest Tracy. Kingston, who won the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet last week, finished 26th, and Tracy, first against the Crimson and Columbia earlier this season, could do no better than 32nd...
...basement of the art center is "The Caf," a lounge-cafeteria where girls congregate in their spare time. Usually one can see there a Princeton, Yale, or Columbia student who has driven to Sarah Lawrence to spend the afternoon hours. While representatives from these three universities date the Sarah Lawrence girls most often, one occasionally sees some pig-tailed coed sporting a Harvard sweatshirt...