Word: canonically
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...years later, few Harvard students werereading the canon. Undergraduates frequentlysubstituted departmental courses for those"recommended" by the General Education committee,according to Phyllis Keller, associate dean of thefaculty for academic affairs...
Hall agrees, saying "even if you believe thatthe canon of Western history and literature hasbeen biased in favor of white, upper-class,straight males, to a large extent they've shapedwhat we have...
...agreements put an end to dumping and helped American chipmakers gain a 16% share of the Japanese market, a historic high. (Japan insists that the figure is closer to 20% when IBM shipments of chips to its Japanese subsidiary are counted.) Motorola makes the chips that operate Canon's single-lens-reflex camera, for instance, and Texas Instruments supplies the digital processors for Sony compact-disc players. According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, American companies are generating $1 billion a year in extra revenues as a result of the trade pacts. U.S. semiconductor companies are turning their attention to South...
What Columbia fails to understand is that supporting feminist scholarship (and gender studies more broadly) has little to do with political struggles. Clearly someone's defense of the traditional canon is just as political as someone else's defense of multiculturalism. But what's more important is that multiculturalism--education which includes academic work by women and people of color--fosters better scholarship and makes for a better university...
...reading of the Canon of Ethics persuades me that I cannot pursue this case simply as a Treblinka matter on the premise that it is tactically shrewd and morally acceptable because we think he was a guard elsewhere," Parker wrote in the memo, according to The Post...