Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hammarskjold's Markings (TiME, Oct. 23, 1964) was an instantaneous success. "Everybody owns Dag Hammarskjold's Markings," said retired Episcopal Bishop Malcolm Endicott Peabody. "But few have read it. Few of those have understood it." What fascinated the public, though, was far less the book's content than the striking contrast it revealed between the public image of the icy, imperturbable diplomat and the passionate mysticism of the secret diarist...
...seems to me it is time to eliminate a lot of the nonsense involved with class ranking and grading," he said. "A teacher should have the right to teach as he sees fit, whether the content of the course or the way it is taught is involved," the letter continued...
...their work took form, the coauthors disputed over its content. Ten years passed. In 1938, at a final meeting in London, they reached agreement, but out of compassion decided to defer publication until the death of Wlison's second wife, Edith Gait. She died five years ago, and the book-presumably unrevised since 1938-has now been released...
...program of year-long integrated courses, which could be passed by a comprehensive examination or passed out of in initial placement tests. Members of the College faculty devoted themselves to the preparation of the syllabi for these unique courses. Hutchins planned for an emphasis on method rather than content so that the student would develop, with the professor, a technique of critical analysis rather than a list of memorized facts. A Humanities course would not attempt to familiarize students with a wide historical range of "the greats" of literature or art. Instead, a class would probe in depth isolated examples...
...emphasis was obviously also on independent learning, for the student was expected to continue his education indefinitely, rediscovering the method and not the content of his courses. This was the spirit of Hutchins' "Chicago plan," at work in the university until 1954 when it was modified to allow for four years of high school education and to require half of the college courses to be in a specialized field. In the other half, the basic schema of liberal education remains...