Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students presented a petition to Samuel P. Huntington, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government and chairman of the Government Department, asking that the junior essay be dropped this year. The petition was signed by 144 of the 189 students...
...students have decided, however, to ask that the Government faculty decrease the influence the essay will have on the final grade--50 per cent in the past--instead of eliminating the exam altogether...
...people because they despair that systems can be changed or because they believe that systems will change to fit the change of people's needs. Left-romantics (pragmatists?) want to change the system to change the man (or perhaps for more abstract reasons, justice, etc.). George Orwell, in his essay on Charles Dickens, recognized the trends, saying, "They appeal to different individuals, and they probably have a tendency to alternate in terms of time." We are now, perhaps at midphase, the most difficult time...
...were petitioning as members of the department, rather than as outsiders who wanted to disrupt. "When we started out, some of us had at least identified with the department--we didn't want to disrupt it," he said. Burke said that some people are in favor of boycotting the essay now, but that circulars sent out from the department in the past week have stressed that the essay counts for one half of the yearly grade...
Furthermore, the booklet reprints, from last year's February Negro Digest, Hardin's article entiled "The Uses of the Afro-American Past." This essay, whose title pays homage to Herbert J. Muller's magnificent book, The Uses of the Past, is one of the finest Negro Digest has published...