Word: controls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interest, is it cause for wonder that medicine concentrates on the esoteric rather than the mundane? You are caught in a peculiar bind. You think that physicians should be better than other people (perhaps they should), and then you want to make them better by placing them under the control of society, which, from the original premise, is not as good as they...
...might be argued that control over grading is necesary if the Faculty is to safeguard its educational standards. But the real way in which the Faculty maintains its standards is through its right to judge the credentials of its members. Since this system theoretically ensures that every Harvard teacher is qualified to be teaching, it is hard to see what additional good can be achieved by requiring teachers to grade their students' work...
...Panel on Arms Control, Disarmament and National Security...
...recent petition sponsored by a Faculty group uses platitudes about academic freedom to cover up the main issue of racism at Harvard and is thus a direct attack on the Black students who stopped the riot control course...
...shown that the Corporation is not neutral. In fact, the courses which they approve, from the economics department where Marx is a dirty word, to the humanities where art is separated from reality, to the ROTC program which enlists Harvard in the Vietnam war effort, to the riot control course, are hardly neutral. These courses help maintain the status quo of American capitalism and fight those trying to change it. Must we really accept such courses in the name of "freedom," even of "academic freedom" or of "neutrality...