Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relativism which Harvard fosters is reflected also in Faculty members' views on courses on religion. While there is enthusiasm for courses about religion, there is agreement that courses in religion would be abhorrent to the spirit of the modern, secular Harvard...
...added to give the project a degree of concreteness, and three weeks ago a "catalogue" was sent to freshmen listing 22 proposed study groups. Entitled the "Freshman Seminar Program," the groups will include a total of 150 to 175 freshmen, who in many cases need qualify only with "enthusiasm and lively interest." Despite the fact that the program has been established well enough to present a seminar curriculum, the ideas and opinions of its organizers are still in a state of flux. Approach a dozen men leading seminar groups and a dozen different ideas can be gleaned on what should...
...picture, and herein lies another of the elements of mystery surrounding the Program. He has wished to remain anonymous, and so far this wish has been fulfilled. The scuttlebutt has it, however, that he is a wealthy alumnus who remembers his own freshman year with something less than enthusiasm, and who approached the Administration with a desire to improve the lot of future Harvard initiates. Quite likely, his generosity has by now been supplemented by support from other sources. At any rate, money does not seem to have been a serious obstacle at any point in the preparation...
...view their workshops as a kind of tutorial for freshmen. Their subject-matter will be closely related to course work, or will entail independent study for their students within the field of a particular course; the students, for the most part, will be freshmen who can show an unusual enthusiasm (the words "lively interest" are stressed time and again) and special aptitude in the field...
...seemed clearly his meaning. Such a development would be anathema to French rightists who have loudly insisted on complete "integration" of Algeria into France and who, so far, have been able to veto any more liberal solution to the rebellion. But last week, with all Paris caught up in enthusiasm for Ike and convinced-overoptimistically-that Ike had promised U.S. support to De Gaulle's new plan, rightist outcries were uncharacteristically restrained...