Word: common
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jumped whole-heartedly, in our zeal for intellectual freedom, into demanding that the young mind be allowed to follow its own bent and select its own studies. Thoughtful educators have never been quite satisfied that they were in this way safeguarding common culture...
...goes the palm for the verse of the number; in fact these unpublished utterances of the Lake Poet should most assuredly go into the next collected volume of Advocate verse. One might quarrel with Mr. Witter Bynner ('02) for disturbing buried desires; for no sooner has the Editorial with Common Sense buried King Spirits than along come most enchanting pictures of Cantors, with numberless grapes and Bacchus with "viney patterns of the veining of his nose." After that the Freudian wish is no more and the sole remaining bottle "though it doubles me rheumatic" is drained to Socrates! In striving...
Garden Street, Opposite Common...
...strikingly like recent tendencies at Harvard. The Freshman Dormitories at Harvard have already brought about a social solidarity among the Freshmen, while the grouping of a limited number of courses as "Open to Freshmen," and the new system of compulsory physical training, have given them something approaching a common curriculum. At both Yale and Harvard there is a strong drift in the direction of what might not improperly be called a 'Freshman College...
...Dean Angier's appointment is significant of the fact that college officers, even deans, need no longer be domestic products. A good dean can be naturalized as well as native-born. In working out a solution of these common educational problems Dean Angier has the hearty good-wishes of all his Harvard friends...