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...have already shown in today's meeting suggests that at stake there are principles that matter. The phrase Cum Laude, fortunately or not, continues to be the symbol of respectable intellectual achievement at Harvard; the encouraging thing has been that the Faculty was willing to embody in C.L.G.S. a concept of intellectuality beyond that of competence in a special discipline. Last year's vote strengthened that concept by removing the departmental voice altogether...
...fought the trend which was developing in several other universities for the establishment of a professional staff of advisors. Leighton insisted on using only Faculty and Administration members, an unpopular concept at that time, but one which still forms the basis of the Board of Advisors both here and in most other colleges...
...lesson of history, to use a thoroughly non-operational concept, is that men can successfully live in more than one intellectual world. Priestley, discoverer of oxygen, published twenty-five volumes of theology; the great mathematicians Sylvester and Hamilton were voluminous poets. From these examples and many more like them, it does not follow that all one needs to do is sit back and wait for the gap between scientific and humane in America to close, as it did in Europe. The conspicuous lack of significant scientists or humanists who straddle the gap today testifies otherwise. Men can live than...
Dartmouth, however, has been riding awfully high for as Ivy seem, and may be due for a fall. If they are to be tripped this season, today seems the best bet. Concept Dartmouth to win, but a Cornell upset may be in the making...
Robert Gordon, former dean of the University of Southern California and a nationally known speaker, will discuss the concept of student volunteering in a talk entitled "Beyond Space...