Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dunster has the greatest number of new tutors with five residents and two non-residents. The former include Jonas A. Barish '42, English; Charles G. H. Garrett, Physics; Richard J. Goss '48, Biology; William H. McClain, German; and James B. Thompson, Petrology. New non-resident tutors are Gardner E. Lindzey, Social Relations, and Benjamin D. Paul, Social Relations...
...example of this, Zipf was the director of German A, the elementary German course, while he gave courses last year in the Social Relations department. This fall, he planned to devote himself to research under a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation...
...Guide claims to present an accurate picture of student opinion. This claim is not alone explicit; it is implicit in the phrasing of its reports, which cannot fail to remind us of the measured and solemn, yet assured, judgements of the great nineteenth century German historians: "Professor X was thought by '53, on the whole, to be an insensible dullard. Some, however, found him a towering intellect and an insipiring teachers, etc. etc." But what does "on the whole" mean? And is "some" ten, twenty, thirty or forty precent? We are never given any forthright statement of proportions...
Richard Stern, director of the German university's English seminar, writes that the American books are needed for some 300 students attending lectures on American literature. "Literary soldiers stripped the pre-war shelves," explains Stern...
Organized to promote an interchange of ideas on student activities, the seminar paid special attention to the topics of academic freedom, student political activity, specialization in university education, and American fraternities as contrasted to German Verbinungen (student clubs...