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Eight tutors finally crystallized their complaints into a set of proposals. They evolved a plan to combine sophomore and junior tutorials into one two-year course, but eventually abandoned that in favor of a request to make sophomore tutorial more specialized and to abolish the sophomore essay...
Some analytic philosophers are even daring to "do metaphysics" again. P. F. Strawson, one of the most respected of Oxford's analytic philosophers, boldly subtitled his latest book, Individuals, An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics. The book is partly concerned with the difference between material objects and human beings, a highly technical question that, by extension, has to do with the very real problem of whether man can be explained like a flesh-and-blood object of whether he is an organism with a purpose. Another, younger Oxonian, Anthony Quinton, is completing a philosophical treatise, grandly titled The Nature...
...Your Essay on voting [Dec. 10] was directly to the mark. As the staff director of the President's Committee on Registration and Voting, I was shocked to find that while apathy is a major cause of nonvoting, election laws written when buggy whips were a big industry and high-button shoes the latest style are the major block. The fact is, we are shortly going to have 100 million Americans attempting to register and vote. Our procedures and practices simply are not up to that number, and revision must take place -and soon...
...Until history provides perspective, your Essay must be filed with the contemporary evaluations of Vatican II as the best capsule analysis. You avoid the extremes of so much of the press coverage, from indiscriminate flattery to unimaginative cynicism. That a newsmagazine weighs for its readers the triteness or the significance of different council statements is evidence that John XXIII's dream and Paul VI's plans are already being realized: Vatican II was not just for the Catholic Church (ecclesiastical) but for the world (ecumenical...
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