Word: sever
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University has, Bersin said, "cooperated all along the line" in arranging for the speech. The Administration has promised the Committee the Sever Quad-rangle for the morning of Class Day, June 12, and is securing a building for the affair in case of rain...
Rudenstine's manipulation of the Hum 6 mystique has probably won him the most fans. Perched cross-legged atop a table in a dreary, third-floor Sever room, he gently probes the intricacies of Eliot and James and Shakespeare, urging his section towards the Hum 6 View of the World. It doesn't always work: the Hum 6 magic-show of extracting meaning from symbols overwhelms some students and exasperates others. But they keep coming back. "Because we love Mr. Rudenstine," a Cliffie says...
When he joined the Harvard faculty in 1948, Skinner introduced his new teaching ideas in his course, Nat Sci 114. For twelve years he taught the course--on "Human Behavior," in which students learned much of the material from machines in Sever Hall's self-instruction room. When Skinner retired from undergraduate teaching in 1962, the course was no longer given...
...think it's possible to sever Harvard from the community. That concept of a University is a medieval dream. Even medieval universities were established to train people...
...Faculty's reluctance to sever anyone from the University was due to "the notion that veritas can only follow the free expression of all ideas," Ford said...