Word: content
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...proposed 'introductory area' courses, however, have been attacked on the grounds that they are administratively too difficult for a college of Harvard's size, and that they would not, even if ideally constituted, effectively provide the students with the common intellectual content which is their aim," Clark's statement said...
...dirt and being fascinating withal. The muddier the pool the keener their desire to throw stones into it and watch the ripples. The darkness of the human mind and the dirt of existence are what they love to dwell on; and they do so to their heart's content (and the horror of the audience) in "The Human Beast," current film at the Fine Arts...
...Redefining of "collective bargaining," as suggested by the Smith committee, would tend to exclude negotiations on basic pay rates, wages, hours, working conditions, would "empty the collective-bargaining process of any serious content...
Under the present victory system some of the greatest of the Harvard greats would have had to be content with a minor H this year. Coach Ulen might have had two breastrokers as good as Fritz Berizzi, and two divers as outstanding as Rusty Greenhood, but comparative times and scores show that they would have placed only third and fourth against Yale. One of them would have gotten on major letter...
Thus the faculty committees which struggle with the Herculean task of giving a Harvard education a common content should keep a keen eye on the more or less sweeping reform plans in force at Chicago, St. John's, Columbia, and North Carolina. They should draw their lesson from the experiences of these pioneers, who have spared Harvard the costs of hit-or-miss experimenting. They should not shrink back from the pains of a thorough cure, if they feel that eventually it would put the patient back on his feet. For liberal education has passed beyond the stage where occasional...