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Edmund Burke cast an indignant eye across the English Channel at the French Revolution and wrote sarcastically: "Amidst assassination, massacre and confiscation, they are forming plans for the good order of future society." Burke was the prototype of skepticism about certain revolutions. Since the French Terror, history has paraded past too many Utopian dramas of transformation that ended by being as totalitarian, as murderous, as the regimes that they swept away-triumphs of hopeful zealotry over experience. Stalin turned the Russian Revolution into a self-devouring machine that crushed its own in the basement of the Lubyanka. Especially because...
...competing teams had to answer questions on topics ranging from famous white-suited comedians to state capitals named after Presidents and 18th century English monarchs...
...tutorial regulations, which allegedly still guide each department, require that Faculty members teach a minimum of 30% of a department's tutorials and that graduate students teach no more than 30%. However, a 1977 CUE study of tutorial programs in five of Harvard's largest departments--Economics, English, Government, History, and Psychology and Social Relations--revealed that none of these departments even came near these figures. The worst offender--the History Department--had graduate students teaching 91% of its tutorials. Government tutorials ran an inglorious second with 86% graduate student-run tutorials. English showed...
Elizabeth McKinsey, head tutor in English, said last week she did not see how the department's limited faculty resources could meet the legislation's requirements. This year only one English professor teaches a sophomore tutorial. McKinsey contends the department can't increase professors' participation in tutorials, without reducing the number of lecture courses offered--a sacrifice the department is unwilling to make...
...Some faculty members might find guidelines too restrictive," Judith A. Kates, assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature and member of the Faculty Committee on Women's Studies, said yesterday, adding "there just aren't that many people who are aware of how to use the materials in the DRRC and the Schlesinger Library...