Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...were initiated by college students, picketing dime stores in their college towns. Although later joined by large numbers of working-class Negroes, college students were the logical initiators of the new social protest for a variety of reasons...
...successful revolution establishes a new community, but a missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. Goodman then lists some revolutions we have missed, or started, but compromised: technocracy, garden city, new deal syndicalism, class struggle, democracy, freedom of speech, liberalism, agrarianism, fraternity, brotherhood of races, pacifism, enlightenment, popular culture, sexual revolution (which Goodman refers to again and again), and of course, progressive education. Even this partial list hints at the scope of Goodman's approach...
More often, however, the academic system is the arena of conflict. One descriptive explanation divides the class into 'linear' and 'diffuse' students. Linears study everything on the reading list and attend all the lectures, or try to. The diffuse dabble, without much plan, through the course material, often achieving very little. As the Fall progresses, linears divide into a group which works ever more intensively and one which begins to learn the ropes and read selectively. The diffuse split into a segment which appears to be learning the ropes--actually begins to work fairly intensively along lines of personal interest...
...disillusion so evident in Freshmen may be precipitated by the grading system and course assignments, but often the intellectual tone of the Freshman environment and the social structure of the class are equally important. The particular source of discord is likely to be determined by what the Freshman looks for rather than where Harvard fails to meet general expectations: a student who is looking for an intellectual atmosphere and finds one will be far less disturbed by academic difficulty, even if he led his school class...
...solution to the present problem in a reconsideration of the past decision. The situation is easier for the prep school product, for he is often more accustomed to accepting a B as a satisfactory grade, something which is harder for the high school graduate who has always led his class. But since preppies generally do not work as hard as their high school confreres, the difference tends to even...