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...read Stookey's article, however, or Miss Gale's, or Krupnick's, you might begin to feel that the University can, in time, surmount these problems. For Stookey's article indicates the sort of long-range planning that can supplant the stop-gap measures popular at present; Krupnick's proposes a change in the administration of courses that could provide the undergraduate with greater insight into (and interest in) the process of education; and Miss Gale's shows that an administration can go a long way toward creating the essential "atmosphere of expectation...
...have had a steadily growing sense of how much needs to be done for the undergraduate house system. The real gap between the educational opportunities in Harvard and Radcliffe residences was a surprise to me," the President explained recently. Although she has had the basic notion of a Radcliffe House system in mind for well over a year, the plan crystallized slowly, through discussions with Harvard officials, Radcliffe administrators, and undergraduates who came to complain about the College's physical set-up. One day this spring the trustees solemnly toured the gleaming halls, airy rooms, and spacious courtyard of Quincy...
...have wished for, she would have an increased chance to expand her interests beyond herself. A variety of opportunities which were formerly labelled "Harvard only" would open before her in the House-oriented activities. As her specifically "intellectual" endeavors became intermingled more thoroughly in her daily routine, the frightening gap between education and life might narrow a little. The resident families would provide her with encouraging examples of professional women who are also excellent wives and mothers and of what she is just as anxious to find, professional men who support their wives' careers with interest and understanding...
Daniel Seltzer, instructor in English, agreed with Alfred, calling the theatre "a moral exercise." In pleading for the establishment of repertory companies, he traced the historical widening of the gap between the theatre and education...
...surely unexpected result has been an increasing tendency in recent debates to suggest that a much purer form of Sophomore Standing be given to Natural Scientists than others, because the Natural Sciences are different. That Sophomore Standing should serve to add to the gap between the two cultures is a final blow...