Word: entailing
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...fall, the seven-man team will take on tough eastern and NCAA teams; the spring will entail competition in the AAU. Along the way. Harvard plans to meet six of the eight teams that made it to the NCAA finals last year, including perennial powerhouse and second-ranked UCLA, and tough customers Fordham and Air Force. In the east, the first goal will be to defeat two teams that have drowned the club in the past--Yale and MIT--and ultimately to challenge Brown, the strongest in the east...
Others seemed worried about Huggins' stated view that Afro-Am is not a discipline, but an area of study. "Conventional disciplines ususally entail a method and a technique, and are discrete and distinctive. In these terms, Afro-Am is not a discipline," Huggins says, adding, "It has a perspective but not a method--and it has the flexibility to incorporate different perspectives." He considers the department "an adminsitrative unit" and adds jokingly, "I've known departments in my day that have had no discipline, academic or otherwise...
...fall, the seven-man team will take on tough eastern and NCAA teams; the spring will entail competition in the AAU. Along the way. Harvard plans to meet six of the eight teams that made it to the NCAA finals last year, including perennial powerhouse and second-ranked UCLA, and tough customers Fordham and Air Force. In the east, the first goal will be to defeat two teams that have drowned the club in the past--Yale and MIT--and ultimately to challenge Brown, the strongest in the east...
Others seemed worried about Huggins' stated view that Afro-Am is not a discipline, but an area of study. "Conventional disciplines ususally entail a method and a technique, and are discrete and distinctive. In these terms, Afro-Am is not a discipline," Huggins says, adding, "It has a perspective but not a method--and it has the flexibility to incorporate different perspectives." He considers the department "an adminsitrative unit" and adds jokingly, "I've known departments in my day that have had no discipline, academic or otherwise...
Huggins' philosophy, then, does not entail the study of the liberal arts for just its own sake. "Reading and listening to lectures are not what undergraduate education is all about. A concentration can and should develop ways of thinking about issues and problems. I hope students will see the concentration as a means for doing something, not just learning something," he says...