Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kiths & Climate. Out of the vast, miscellaneous welter of Huntington's ideas, a few will certainly live. One is the concept of "kiths," a main feature of his book. Huntington defined a kith as "a group of people relatively homogeneous in language and culture, and freely intermarrying with one another." He traced the careers of many influential kiths, including the Jews, the Puritan New Englanders, the Mongols, the Hakkas of South China...
...William H. Claflin, Jr. '15, Treasurer, the University's money is controlled. Today this fortune adds up to almost two hundred million dollars in market value, a figure that does not include a penny's worth of the physical plant. It is the source, not only of that vague concept known as Harvard's greatness, but also of many more specific questions, such as the various rates of tuition throughout the University. Yet the nature of Harvard's money, both in terms of its powers and its limitations, probably is more of a mystery in the minds of most students...
Last Fall's ostentatious Constitutional Revision only culminated evolution in progress since the first Council of 1908. Two basic obstacles had long blocked a quick maturity: unrepresentative political composition of the Council and the time-honored concept of the level on which propriety permitted a collegiate aristocracy to function...
...telling commentary that this is something new. But in the past only council members themselves did the job: usually, in fact, some four or five scurried about with no apparent, concept of the colossal reservoir of untapped talent crying for discreet exploitation...
...Council study before the war pointed to the need for the General Education concept which was later evolved by the Faculty. "Limitation of the Tutorial System" in the spring of last year may well have saved tutorial from slow death...