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...that matter, does his "clear but exaggerated picture of our American society: slums of engineering, boondoggling production, chaotic congestion, tribes of middlemen . . . no patriotism, an empty nationalism bound for a cataclysmically disastrous fnish, wise opinion swamped . . . youth idle and truant, youth sexually suffering and sexually obsessed, youth without goals...
...from adequate. Near the end of the book, he suggests one program that would make growing up less absurd--and that is decentralization, so that men could get back a sense of personal involvement in meaningful decisions, political and economic. Unfortunately, this issue is raised only vaguely and without much consideration of the politics involved...
Coolidge announced his retirement last spring after three years in which he had captured the Thames Cup three times, and had amassed 33 victories without a defeat. He is now at the Business School...
More often, however, the academic system is the arena of conflict. One descriptive explanation divides the class into 'linear' and 'diffuse' students. Linears study everything on the reading list and attend all the lectures, or try to. The diffuse dabble, without much plan, through the course material, often achieving very little. As the Fall progresses, linears divide into a group which works ever more intensively and one which begins to learn the ropes and read selectively. The diffuse split into a segment which appears to be learning the ropes--actually begins to work fairly intensively along lines of personal interest...
Almost every student comes to the College a particular personal utopia, challenge, opportunity, and almost none finds what he expects. Many are fortunate and never realize badly they guessed; others are blessed with accurate enough to be changed without pain; some are so little committed that they can change their ideas easily. But for the majority, the discovery that Harvard is not what they anticipated is critical in forming their attitudes toward the College and toward higher education...