Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title; in failing, it illustrates the real dangers of writing a history of one aspect of a total event. Mr. Graubard skillfully summarizes the influence of Russian events on the Labour Party and of Labour's protest on the Government. But just as important in the complex web of Anglo-Soviet relations was the positive role Labour at times played in the actual process of policy formation, and in turn, the effect this participation had on the party...
...Committee voted to make into a Congressional investigation what should be a thorough study of the United States' financial system. But Congress needs an understanding of the operations and effects of our economic set-up which a Congressional committee cannot acquire. Congressmen lack time and background to cover the complex problem...
...Albany Railroad. Huge pilings will be driven into the ground to form a foundation for the project's centerpiece: a $50 million skyscraper, 50 stories tall, 40% of which will be used by Prudential for its regional headquarters. Around its huge tower, the Pru will also build a complex of airy, modern stores, an 800-seat restaurant, a series of smaller apartment towers housing 1,250 families. In addition, the Pru will probably help finance a 1,000-room hotel on the site, which will be one of Boston's biggest, and the city itself will spend...
...support for a grade system as a potential deterrent to glib generalization is related to the third, and posibly most basic, obstacle to independent study in the present framework. This has nothing to do with Harvard, except in so far as Harvard helps produce it: the increasing complexity of knowledge. When administrators lament the fact that fewer students today are engaged in individual research than there were in the 1930's, one is tempted to remind them that things are more complex and fragmented now than they were then. While there may have been seven books on Moby Dick then...
...fragmentation of knowledge, the grade system, and with independent study does not extracurricular activities all conflict mean that independent study should be discarded as impossible: quite the contrary, the fact that students can professionalize extracurricular activities and still "beat" the grade system, and the fact that knowledge is so complex, point to the conclusion that any advances in learning and any achievement of real depth of knowledge must be sought outside the course system as it now exists. Take an example. Suppose a student wants to study Dante from the psychological point of view. Where should he turn? Clearly...