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...Faculty and student body. With the appointment of the Senior Tutors--the Allston Burr Senior Tutors they will be called in honor of the memory of Allston Burr--with the appointment of these gentlemen, an effective integration of the Houses and our educational program will be possible. The whole concept of "collegiate living" as a way of providing a liberal education now emerges clearly as the master design of undergraduate education in Harvard College...
Beyond Phil Murray's "more" lies a concept of society that, he feels, fits the emerging facts of urban, industrial U.S. life today. It is a society where politics, community life and the feeling of "belonging" revolve around a man's occupation, and not around the neighborhood or suburb where he happens to live. Murray's "more" may result in calamitous clashes, of which the 1952 steel strike is a horrible example, but Murray's "more" does not imply class warfare. He specifically insists that worker and boss are members of the same community, a "functional...
Dave, a philosophy major, now says he thought ruefully as he fell of the Greek concept of hubris-the Icarus complex that drives men to overweening aspirations. Being a practical physicist, Jim sank his ax handle in the solid snow and held on for dear life...
...they make to circumvent the spirit of the Constitution, every move they make to centralize political power, every move they make to curtail and suppress individual liberty is reaction in its most extreme form . . . The framers of the Constitution were the most liberal thinkers of all the ages . . . Their concept held to the primacy of the individual's interest; that of our present leadership to the predominance of the state...
...year on foreign policy, opening the Great Debate. This year he delivered the same exhortation again. One of the greatest dangers to free men everywhere, he says, is the overstraining of the U.S. economy. He begs for a reassessment of present U.S. policy in Europe. He raises instead the concept of a Gibraltar of freedom in the Western Hemisphere. He denies that this is "isolation"; the word is a "smear" used to squelch debate, he says. He deplores such clichés, "which freeze thought...