Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something is forgotten. Last year, after a few of the most highly-regarded students in the senior class had engaged in some minor vandalism and street fighting, they were angrily called to the office of a professor and given a thorough tongue lashing. The substance of his anger was these promising senior scholars had not yet realized that to be a scholar implies a strong degree of moral conscience, than the life of the mind demands a commitment to responsible moral action. It is this statement, so important for an academic community to understand and accept, that has perhaps been...
Agreeing with Leighton, Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, called the study "an extremely thorough and perceptive analysis of the House system, and its problems and acomplishments, which offers sound practical suggestions for improved performance...
Pusey commented that the choice of the Brattle St. site had come after a thorough survey of all possible locations. The Center will be "within walking distance for both Harvard and Radcliffe students," he said...
...fall of 1953, pressure for a thorough review of the honor system became so great that President Wilbur K. Jordan appointed a committee of three student leaders and two deans to make a year-long study of the system Striving, as one member of the group said, "to reconcile ideals and utility," the committee held bi-weekly discussions and sponsored a Radcliffe News poll of student opinion. Issued in June, 1954, the group's report called for a return of authority to the proctor, and emphasized the proctor's duty to report infractions of a set of revised rules. Student...
Besides tracing certain ideas and attitudes in our culture back to their foundations, a thorough study of Biblical and classical myths would be enjoyable and valuable in itself...