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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...donor offered Ivy $500,000 with the proviso that it not be used for students of "certain races and creeds" ("After all, one cannot be a traitor to one's class"), Dr. Hall turned her down flat: "Life is like a college, Mrs. Marshall, you don't learn much by attending only one class...
When Andrew Carnegie put up the first $1,000,000 to start a school in Pittsburgh, ais objective was on the modest side. His first aim was merely to help the sons of his steelworkers to learn a skill or a trade. But the school collected a first-rank faculty, and Steelmaster Carnegie raised his sights. By the time he died in 1919, his school had become a full-fledged institute of technology...
Soon Tech students were spending a fourth of their time in the social sciences and humanities-not to learn a mass of facts about these subjects, but to understand the disciplines behind them. While learning to solve problems in engineering, they began to learn how writers, economists, and historians solved problems in other fields. "The teacher," said Doherty, "becomes a thinking-coach . . . but the student must do the thinking . . . He soon finds he is using his head the same way regardless of the field...
Wells was finally received by British society, but neither then nor before did he try to deny his succession of mistresses. His wife Catherine, who died in 1927, had to learn to accept them. His intellectual friends considered him a Don Juan. Wells did not flaunt his women, but he never hesitated to be seen with them in public. One of them took care of him with complete devotion...
...problem of whether or not a college can develop a whole man is so essential to the basic philosophy of an education that Harvard's Student Council is currently carrying out research designed to learn--as well as can be learned--the necessities for the development of this "whole man" graduate. A pamphlet attempting to explain the religious emphasis in Holy Cross education states that "the supervision over a student's moral life should be as systematic as the direction of his mental life. Education, as understood in this system, is the training of the whole man in which training...