Word: contention
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...content of the knowledge acquired by a student is also affected by grades. Those aspects of any subject matter which can most easily be reduced to a single one-dimensional measure increase in importance--such as for example, factual and quantifiable date. In the choice of pare topics, preference is given to small questions which can be easily researched and for which a complete answer can be developed in the limited time available. In order to assure a short-run payoff, the student tends to minimize risk by restricting his field of inquiry. As a result, the larger framework...
...petition states in part: "Since its inception, [Soc Rel 148/149] has been subjected to continual harassment, on technical and administrative grounds . . . We believe that the real objections to the course are . . . to its radical political content and form...
Back in England, Milner compared his Samoan stock with the proverbs current in Europe, and was struck by the many similarities in structure, rhythm and content. It was almost as if the proverb shared a common source. Since this was culturally impossible, Milner considered another potential origin: the universality of human thought...
...Mafia connections are strictly social. He enjoys frequent jaunts to the Mafia-backed gambling dens in the Bahamas. That he should thus leave some of the royalty money with the very people whom he good-naturedly exploited to get it is the sort of justice that would surely content the Godfather...
Both in its structure and in its content Soc Rel 149 is concerned with essential social problems and the course belongs in the Social Relations Department. It addresses itself to specific, valid, and intensively-studied topics, among them racism alienation, and the experience of education...