Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last Saturday. His team was scrimmaging in full equipment, and he was observing from the stands. Harkness explained that the group was Cornell's freshman team. Whether it was or not is questionable, but the regulation covers freshman practice as well. No matter how Harkness chooses to rationalize his behavior, the violation remains. The Ivy group has no supervisor to arbitrate in such circumstances, and it is mandatory that there be one if the Ivy League is to remain faithful to its principles...
John A. Sciler, assistant dean of the Business School, said, "It's become quite clear we're completely unprepared for almost any situation. Our disciplinary rules are anachronistic not only in and of themselves, but because they apply only to students and say nothing about behavior expected of Faculty members...
...Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences defined as "unacceptable" behavior, violence against a member or guest of the University; deliberate interference with academic freedom and freedom of speech; theft or willful destruction of property; forcible interference with the freedom of movement of members and guests of the University; and obstruction of the normal processes and activities essential to the functions of the University community...
Antonia Fraser's approach to such goings-on is the one advocated by 19th Century Historian James Froude: "To look wherever we can through the eyes of contemporaries, from whom the future was concealed." With such handling, events achieve a fresh plausibility; Mary's behavior with Darnley and Bothwell, for example, becomes humanly understandable. Historic perspectives are foreshortened-a most notable defect in Miss Fraser's acerbic portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Nonetheless, the author marshals her evidence generously enough to allow for differing interpretations and briskly clears away the "cobwebs of fantasy" that have attached themselves...
...haven't discovered any outstanding new phenomena," Reeves added, "but a great many observations that had been qualitative are now quantitative. Now you can start calculating the sun's behavior...