Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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"...as far as the actual class work itself went, the amount of personal contact in connection with the kind of work I was doing, that I had with professors and instructors was pracitically nil... In fact ... when I have been looking for a job ... it's been very embarrassing, because...
Because debates on education at Harvard often sound coldly formal and abstract a study of learning as the interaction of human beings is a welcome thing. Learning should be a dialogue between men, as well as the imparting of a discipline; frequently what is of lasting value in a course...
The article, "Encounters with Learning," deals with how students' personal contact with teachers relates to whether of not they graduated with a "liberal education." House Masters and Senior Tutors rated 70 "average" students (C plus to B marks)--50 from the Class of '52, and 20 from the Class of...
There could be nothing but an operational definition of what contsitutes a liberally educated man, so few would quarrel with Whitla on that score. It is quite another matter, however, to set up a tautology--even an operational one. The men whom House Masters are likely to rate liberally educated...
In taped sessions, most of the graduates revealed that they had come to Harvard expecting to achieve something beyond academic growth. They expressed vague expectations such as finding an identity or a direction for their lives to take. Whitla quoted one as saying, "what I wanted out of Harvard was...