Word: stools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Carroll T. Bonney, professor of Naval Science, plans to tell the Chief of Naval Personnel about sympathies expressed at yesterday's meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "The general opinion was that the so-called stool-pigeon clause should be omitted from the certificate in its application to Harvard students," Bonney said last night...
...NROTC students were required this year by order of Matthews to sing a certificate stating their loyalty to the United States. Included in the paper was the "informer" or "stool-pigeon" clause, which requires the student to name all persons he has ever seen at meetings of certain allergy subversive organization...
...solution: it divided its curriculum into three basic fields-the humanities and the social and natural sciences-and required freshmen and sophomores to explore all three. "A false 'specialization' that chooses to neglect even one of these fields," cried Harry Carman, "is like a three-legged stool with only two legs...
...time, other colleges began to agree. By last week, as 65-year-old Harry Carman reached the retirement age for "deaning," Columbia's three-legged stool had been copied on campuses throughout the U.S. "Let's not forget Montaigne's admonition," Carman once advised: "'The object of education is to make, not a scholar, but a man.' " If U.S. colleges had begun to make less lopsided men, it was partly because of Dean Carman...