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...object of the class is to use one's ideas, words and oratory skills to hunt down and "kill" the ideas and words of others. There is a free-market competition of ideas at play in these classes which is directed and perpetuated by a kind of intellectually Darwinist atmosphere. Those equipped with the most extensive verbal weaponry, the thickest rebuttal armor, and the necessary obsession with intellectual combat are most likely to win. Aggressiveness and at times even aggression pay large dividends. At the end of the class, one or two hunters emerge triumphant, and his or her ideas...
...with each of his personal science heroes, from Darwin to Halley. A "Careful reading," Gould suggests, gives a new lease on life to theories ridiculed or scorned by today's haughty and careless scholars. In a seeming reversal of his desire to combat the complacent and traditional nature of Darwinist thought, Gould even goes as far as to suggest we need a mythology of science...
Mower is a prototype of Harvard's diversity. In one room alone, there is a preppie, a gov jock and an East Asian studies concentrator. We have agnostics, Communists, even a social Darwinist. Diversity is Mower's middle name...
Other groups in addition to INCAR also participated in the demonstration. Larry Hambrecht, a member of the Progressive Labor Party, described Wilson as a "Social Darwinist." "It's in the interest of the ruling class to give a Pulitzer and a Harvard position to Wilson because he says the status quo is because of human nature," he said...
...from the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor, he has opposed virtually every important item on the feminist agenda. When Reagan blithely suggested that people who cannot make it where they now live can "vote with their feet" by migrating to greener pastures, he sounded like a social Darwinist...