Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thursday Kay will speak in the Quincy House Junior Common Room on "The Making of a Composer," as part of the Learning From Performers Program. The Afro-American Studies Department will co-sponsor the discussion...
...surface, Dudley appears similar to the other houses. The house administration--based in Lehman Hall--includes co-masters, a senior tutor and surprisingly, a full complement of resident and non-resident tutors. Like the residential houses, Dudley also maintains a house committee, senior and junior common rooms, a dining hall, darkrooms, art studios and a house library...
About one month after Jonathan Moses' column "A Solution for Israel" (January 20) appeared in the Crimson, a copy of it reached me in Jerusalem. Even this long after its publication I feel compelled to respond--because its fallacies are common and persistent, and because neither Moses nor most readers of the Crimson have enough information to describe, much less analyze what is occurring both in the territories and within Israel...
...Thernstrom case still contains a threat to academic freedom. However Thernstrom is not the victim of a witch-hunt by crusading students, as The Salient would have it. Rather, the problem lies in the breakdown of communication between students and faculty, which prevents the community from coming to a common understanding of what can and cannot be accepted in academic discourse...
Such a consensus is essential if Harvard is to function effectively as an academic community. Many theories are controversial or offensive but are accepted for debate in academic circles because they live up to common intellectual standards of validity. Yet there is no absolute standard that ideas must adhere to. While it is correct to display displeasure with certain theories, it must be proved that their offensiveness outweighs any claims to academic validity they may have...