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...??It was just two professors in a living room going at you for two hours—it was very heavy stuff,?? said Wolff, then a philosophy and general education instructor. ??When Moore was done with them he’d pass them off to me. The kids were just plastered up against the wall. The first week’s reading was the ??Wealth of Nations.?? We were insane.?...
...??It’s a traditional and universal fact of the higher education system in America,?? said Wolff, who became the concentration’s first head tutor. ??The creation of departments means that existing departments might lose students, and they use those statistics about majors to justify their funds.?...
...??People want to get out of little boxes,?? Hoffmann said. ??You cannot separate politics from the study of history or economics. Equations and models are one thing, but human beings are another.?...
...??The departmentalization of academia was a 19th century idea,?? Wolff said. ??The notion that sociology was separate from history or history was separate from politics or economics would have struck the people of the 19th century as nuts. Marx wouldn’t have thought that. Durkheim wouldn’t have thought that.?...
Students saw the breadth of the concentration as a distinct advantage. ??It was great, broad, and it meant that I didn’t have to narrow myself,?? Charles A. Stevenson ??63 said. Stevenson, a member of Wolff’s first tutorial, returned to co-teach Social Studies’ international relations junior tutorial from 1968 to 1970. ??It kept more options open longer. My mind got stretched by my sophomore tutorial more than any other experience at Harvard.?...