Word: canonically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always seemed to me that this problem of the canon was misstated because it always seemed to me that there are so many things worth knowing," says Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah...
...terribly fond of discussion about the canon," adds Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Stanley H. Hoffmann. "I think it's trendy. What people consider to be the cannon changes every two or three years. I think much of that is quite vapid...
...even though professors interviewed were eager to offer informal opinions on the canon at Harvard, many say that the full faculty no longer discusses what students should know upon graduating...
...hear discussions about the effects of affirmative action, you do hear discussions about what happens in other universities and what happens in speech codes, but I have not attended any hand-waving or heart-wrenching discussions about the canon," Hoffmann says...
Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Gregory Nagy suggest that Harvard professors use the word" canon" as a catchphrase because they no longer debate or discuss what the content of a liberal arts education should...