Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freud saw it, dreams provide psychic gratification for suppressed desires. Researchers in the growing science of sleep-watching suspect that their mysterious function is much broader than that. The latest findings, as presented to the annual meeting of the Association for the Psychophysiological Study of Sleep, are beginning to confirm the link, hitherto experimentally unproved, between dreams and conscious functioning. In dreaming, the experts now surmise, the healthy mind brings its emotional experience to bear on the stresses of the day and forges new mental mechanisms for dealing with them when they recur...
...judge students on personal rather than academic grounds. Indeed, a teacher's future status should be affected more by his classroom abilities than by his performance at cocktail parties, or department meetings. Fortunately, both students and Faculty are sometimes known to suppress their personal tastes in the interests of broader academic criteria. They may dislike a man for his dress or his politics and yet respect him for his scholarship. A system of checks like that now planned for Afro-American Studies should help protect prospective Faculty members against purely personal judgments from either quarter...
...Vietnam and to the complicity nor silence of our profession with regard to that policy." Since, then, CCAS has grown into an organization of several hundred members with chapters at all major centers of Asian studies in the country. CCAS also now has a national newsletter, and a much broader focus on the Asian scholar's relationship to U.S. Asia policy as a whole...
...distinction between a college and the broader university in which it is imbedded must not be forgotten. As many students know only too well, professors in a university lead two lives--in research and in teaching. While this dichotomy should be eliminated, it still exists, and I see no easy way to eliminate...
Research, and scholarship in a broader sense, are essentially authoritative, as Sidney Hook points out (Saturday Review, April 19, 1969). Students in graduate schools do indeed recognize their roles as apprentices and young scholars...