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Nine o'clock is a hardy hour and some of the subject matter is appropriately idealistic. The early-to-bed type, in fact, has a choice of pursuing either the pagan or the Christian mode in his search for the Good Life. Professor Demos in Philosophy 102 (Sever 11) unravels the philosophies of Plato, while Professor Buttrick explores the Old Testament in Humanities 124 (Emerson...
...student hopes to speak--or even think--about politics intelligently he must face three baffling problems. First, the fact that politics is becoming increasingly complicated, and second, its effects are becoming more and more explosive. As a mode of debate, argument-by-slogan is more dangerous than ever before, and as a mode of operation, policy-by-experimentation is less feasible. Thirdly, as the magnitude of political problems multiplies, the authority responsible for their solution becomes progressively concentrated. Faced with complex, crucial issues, and an imposing, impersonal government, students are at a loss to understand how they...
...commented in the first part of the Seminar. Life in this country is related to the Buddhist and Brahmist priests, while people work "for happiness and not for gain." Due to the cultural set-up of the country, Svasti-Xuto felt natives did not want to accept a Western mode of living...
Practically all textbooks, he believes, are time-wasters, and "the lecture is the slowest and least effective mode for the transmission of knowledge." For Wriston, the book is the thing, and he proudly recalls how young Nathan Pusey arrived at Lawrence in the '30s and promptly started 30 sophomores reading Aristotle's Poetics. "The effect was electric. Instead of teaching down to them, Pusey challenged them to reach...
This work has another noteworthy feature: although the piece is in the major mode, the finale is in the minor. Of course there are countless examples of a work in the minor whose finale is in the major; but instances of the reverse are extremely few (Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony is another example...