Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity basketball team's season debut again Amherst Saturday night was, as captain Gene Augustine had predicated, a content in which Harvard could not afford to make many mistakes...
...research, or even for fledgling research assistants, arose to present sketchy plans for a seminar. Since the full Faculty reasoned that an "experimental" program should be permitted the widest possible tolerance, some 17 seminars (one led by Bundy himself) opened after an extraordinarily cursory review of their aims and content...
...force, in other words, has worked to prevent the proliferation of courses that are either too specialized, or too deficient in structure and content to have much in common with educating undergraduates. On the one hand, seminar leaders have, in the estimable cause of making the Freshman year more interesting, exploited all too thoroughly the fact that a Freshman's enormous energy may be channeled into nearly any unusual project. They have introduced students to methods of research and techniques of scholarship in some of the most advanced work in their fields. Perhaps it does not matter so much that...
With the humanist, the situation is quite different. In dealing with nebulous, often unformulated problems, he hopes to suggest. The humanist often assumes that the content of a message is implicit in what it seems to say; one function of criticism, for example, is to exorcise, to make explicit, the contents of fiction and poetry. This difference takes effect on the undergraduate scientist and humanist; the scientist wishes the humanist would come out and say what he means, when perhaps what he means cannot be articulated in so many words; the humanist looks without success for something behind what...
...student. If he is a scientist all of whose friends are scientists, problems of communication with humanists simply do not arise. The humanist who runs at the sight of an equation need not fear that his knowledge will become catholic. And if friends who are in different fields are content to limit their intercourse to the core of experience and language shared by all members of the larger culture, again no problems arise. It is only when the student scientist and humanist want to communicate on a really sophisticated level that they discover a Harvard education offers substantially no preparation...