Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Another big problem," Schreiber explained, "is to give these youngsters cultural experiences of the sort most middle class kids get from their families. We take them to museums, concerts, plays and sometimes we even get the conductor or lead actor to talk to them. We try to make each visit an excursion. If we take them to Carnegie Hall, we make sure they walk down 57th Street afterwards and go to the Automat, say, for something to eat. We want them to get the idea that they can walk on 57th Street and go into a restaurant just like anyone...
...Sigmund several weeks ago, seems to be moving slowly toward some final form. It is no closer to official approval than when it was put forth, but the signs of University Hall interest are encouragingly great. The disturbing fact, particularly for the ten per cent of the senior class that has expressed a desire to participate, is that time will soon run out, if the University wants to start some sort of small scale program next fall...
...corps was stimulated by Senator Kennedy's campaign proposal late in October. Presumably some sort of legislation in the field will come before Congress next year, but passage may well take more than one session. In this case, the efforts and experience of twenty-five members of the Harvard Class of 1961 could assume considerable importance. A small but operative University program next fall, worthwhile in itself, would also serve as an extremely helpful guide for a much larger Government project...
...actual class work itself went, the amount of personal contact in connection with the kind of work I was doing, that I had with professors and instructors was pracitically nil... In fact ... when I have been looking for a job ... it's been very embarrassing, because you just can't say to these people, at Harvard you just don't get to know the instructors very well. And you might say, well, this guy is just out of it and antisocial, and you just listen to reasons why he is unable to supply us with the names of three people...
...article, "Encounters with Learning," deals with how students' personal contact with teachers relates to whether of not they graduated with a "liberal education." House Masters and Senior Tutors rated 70 "average" students (C plus to B marks)--50 from the Class of '52, and 20 from the Class of '59--on the "degree to which they possessed the qualities of mind and sensibility which mark the liberally educated man." Then the men were interviewed to see what the correlation would be of those rated high ("liberally educated") by the Masters and Senior Tutors, and those who, when interviewed, recalled close...