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...conference, held at Sarah Lawrence, was organized, sponsored, and attened by Yale and Sarah Lawrence students, and by members of the Harvard, and Sarah Lawrence faculties. It featured speeches by Dean Monro, Paul S. president of Sarah Lawrence, and Robert Whiteman, Dean of Freshmen Tale...
...earlier speech, Whiteman explained the Freshman dilemma: "There is halfway stage between the student who leaves high school and the mature scholar." Monro later made clear that Harvard assumes students will go on to graduate school; but the growing similarity of colleges to prep schools did not seem disturb conference participants...
...Whiteman said that Yale based its teaching methods on the expediency of individual situations rather than a cover-all philosophy, citing difficulties with the faculty as one reason. But Monro pointed out that through experiments like Freshman Seminars Harvard is seeking to meet the challenge of abler Freshmen...
...country's first election. The plot is ingenious and very funny, but the great virtue of the piece lies in its marvelous prose. The narrator's naivete permits him to speak in wild, enthusiastic language, which sounds neither maudlin nor contrived: They crying no more blackman sweat to sweeten whiteman tea, no more for coolie to draw water to wash baccra foot. Sun come up to tell woman to tie her head and man to buckle his belt; to get ready to rule... The story is full of sun and bright colors and the narrator's simple diction makes...
...WHITEMAN...