Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago Argument...
...Their argument is that such things are a violation of the Soviet constitution. Their tactic is essentially an appeal to law, and that in itself represents an advance over the days of Stalin, when such a protest would have been meaningless. That it is not entirely meaningless now is demonstrated by the fact that the secret police are also concerned with fabricating cases that they can prop up in a Soviet court. The KGB effort to peddle Solzhenitsyn's manuscripts abroad is a search for a pretext to arrest him. Stalin's police never required pretexts for anything they...
...admitted openly by Florida's J. Wayne Reitz, 59, who left his post last year after suffering what he called "presidential fatigue." Not all of them were literally too exhausted to carry on. Most emphasized that the satisfactions they found in leading intellectual centers of action and argument outweighed any personal agony. But all agreed that the pressures on campus presidents are too much for one man to bear for long. Last week in interviews with TIME correspondents, a number of present and former academic leaders discussed the strains-and satisfactions-of their jobs. Had they all been...
...variation on the first argument is that given the arbitrary distribution of students into houses, it is unfair to make a student's chance of taking one of the courses rely so heavily on the luck of the geographical draw. While the courses have been open to Radcliffe and to students in other houses, Wilcox says there has been no more than "token integration." About 80 per cent of the Harvard students in most of the courses have been from the house in which it is being offered. One faculty member even suggested during last winter's debates that such...
...whole Gen Ed program this way," Wilcox says; "Mark Hopkins at the other end of the log may be ideal in educational theory, but that's not workable here." Though the added expense has not yet been computed with any precision, some faculty will probably use the financial argument to demand that house course be proved not just vaguely worthwhile, but worth an extra investment...