Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Short & Dirty. The Cairo press cried, "Jordan explodes!" and Nasser's propaganda radio. Voice of the Arab Nation, urged Jordanians to "stage a bloody revolution to deliver Jordan from Hussein." Yet at week's end, Egypt and Nasser seemed content to let the demonstrations die down. At the present moment, chaos and anarchy in Jordan are too risky for Nasser. The brutal fact is that if Hussein falls, Israel is more than likely to march to the west bank of the Jordan River, slicing off the null piece of Jordanian territory that protrudes into Israel. And even should...
Constable also stated that considerable discussion is now taking place in the History Department on the content of sophomore tutorial itself. Some department members have suggested shifts in tutorial emphasis as a better improvement than awarding course credit to sophomore tutees...
Apart from the content of courses in one department or another, the concern of the College seems to be, in general, more with technical values than with humanistic values. According to the conception which seems prevalent among students--and to some extent among the faculty--the proper function of an instructor is not to enlighten the student about matters of human matters of human significance, but instead to be an expert on more or less technical questions within a narrow field. An instructor is usually known as an expert on logical empiricism, or 20th-century Indian nationalism, or whatever...
Still, the faults of the formal courses remain. No matter how gallantly the faculty attack convention and prejudice in their academic fields of interest, most of them are quite content to let convention and prejudice determine the way in which they conduct their own courses...
Criticism of course content can never be completely, but even if the manner of teaching were perfect, the content of Philosophy courses at Harvard would leave much to be desired from the point of view of liberal education. I talk only about Philosophy, because that is the only subject with which I have been closely acqainted. It may be that my conclusions apply also to other departments. I have the impression that they can be generalized a great deal, and still prove valid...