Word: interest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Hanfmann listed the more important areas where he feels certain Sardis excavations will eventually prove of extreme interest. "As an art historian, I am especially eager to learn more about the native school of sculpture in Sardis and feel quite hopeful that our expedition can find new examples of this style. Theologians are eager to learn more about the religious, social, and political organization of early Christian communities; Sardis is a most notable...
...organizations are no more powerful than at many other schools. (One junior referred to "the myth that this is a student-run college.") The administration is progressive enough to redress student grievances, and the school is small enough to ensure that these grievances will be heard. A burgeoning student interest in Russian, for instance, is likely immediately to produce a Russian course, as it did last year, but the situation is by no means as unique as the student body likes to think...
Nonetheless, the prevailing student attitude--exaggerated as it may be--produces an interest in the running of the college that is commensurate with the spirit of inquiry that Sarah Lawrence attempts to foster. Former president Harold Taylor, who retired last year, discussed administrative matters freely with the students, encouraging the feeling that the students work hand in hand with, rather than under the aegis of, the administration. The feeling of intellectual community appears to be a movement away from individualism. One suspects that individualism came first to Sarah Lawrence, and that the community spirit represents an attempt at moderation...
...quoted remark, a transfer student from Smith made a perceptive comparison between the two schools: "Smith is academically stimulating," she said, "but Sarah Lawrence is intellectually more exciting." Whatever validity this comment has is a result of the college's attempt to interest its students in broad ideas rather than in narrow course material...
...Harvard most of the group attended at least one class, and all of them visited and talked with student groups in their areas of interest. Of course, the "cultural representatives" of the delegation, namely pianist Vlasenko and movie and stage actress Zinaida Kirienko had the most invitations to visit groups in action...