Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alfred Vellucci introduced before the Cambridge City Council three unmistakably provocative resolutions in the spiteful breadth of one week: that all of Harvard's property be confiscated and converted into parking space; this failing, that Harvard be declared an independent metropolis separate from Cambridge; and this failing too, that Harvard's liquor licenses be revoked. Although the confiscation proposal was defeated by only a -54 vote in the Council, Vellucci later claimed that he merely wanted to dramatize the city's parking problems and truly did not covet Harvard's land. But in the meanwhile, some 350 undergraduates had formed...
...guard the rights of minorities, give equal protection of the law to all men, and impartially provide such essential services as education and public health. It cannot unjustly prevent man's effort to better his lot in life: "State activity in the economic field, no matter what its breadth or depth may be, ought not to be exercised in such a way as to curtail an individual's freedom of personal initiative." There is no single "most suitable form of government," but natural law requires of any political system "that government officials be chosen in conformity with constitutional...
Minneapolis-Honeywell's Walter W. Finke, who heads his company's computer division, believes that the only way to compete effectively with IBM is to match its breadth. Minneapolis-Honeywell is preparing two new systems to compete with IBM's 7070 and 7080 systems, may also bring out a compact computer. But few companies can-or want to-risk so much. After all, as its competitors scheme to upset its dominance, IBM is quietly spending $115 million a year on research and development that could lead to even better computers in a business noted for rapid obsolescence...
...give early opportunity for the student to test strenuously his academic pre-dispositions." (p. 8) "The seminars were in no sense to replace departmental courses; they were, ideally, to heighten their impact." (p. 17) "We did not worry that by pursuing a focused inquiry we would lose sight of breadth or method--we hoped, rather, that in the pursuit the student would discover breadth and method..." (p. 39) The report continually emphasizes the value of close association with an academic specialist as a means of learning at first-hand "the nature of scholarly inquiry: its rigor, its integrity...
...defined by the Red Book, only when the seminar explicitly undertook broad questions or had what the report calls "centrifugalness"--the seminar "begins in a small radius and as it accelerates encompasses an ever-expanding field. But there have been seminars, and seminars, and seminars, that have lacked both breadth and "centrifugalness." As the proportion of seminar leaders drawn from the junior faculty increases, there is little reason to suppose that the proportion of narrow seminars will decrease. To save the freshman's program from schizophrenia--Gen. Ed. courses on one side, seminar on the other--the seminars need...