Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismiss Chairman Brown's objections as irrelevant even though you considered the same arguments as valid in the ROTC case. It seems, in your mind, that Roger Brown opposed the course "on political grounds." You conclude this from the alleged fact that opponents of Soc Rel 148-9 failed to talk with a "considerable number of students taking the course." Yet, again, in the ROTC cast you failed to mention that there was no investigation of contents of ROTC courses, distribution an rationality of marks, or effectiveness of University control...
...group of eight--whose statement appears on page three of this morning's CRIMSON--points to students feelings of "discontent, alienation, and unfulfillment" and attributes them to the fact that "students are serving the University's needs, without the University responding to serve theirs...
Anne de St. Phalle '70, one of the Conspiracy's two Radcliffe members, conceded that some aspects of the statement were vague. "But that's not important;" she said, "in fact, it's good. All we know right now is that the energy for change at Harvard is tremendous. It's flowing all around. We want to bring some of it together. Details will take care of themselves--we want, on one level, just to hold out to people a vision of education as it might be. The education we've got right now is in bad shape. You might...
...hour that he had never seen so many attentive people at a lecture ("Lecture? Lecture?" was the irrelevant chorus. "Think about that," he urged. So I have. Of course it didn't matter that the situation could not be called a lecture. The Collins group in fact wishes to replace the structured monologue form of education with an unstructured multilogue sort of interaction of which we had a taste on Monday. What matters is the nature of attention and its object. I think it highly likely that the attention directed to the proceedings in Lowell Lec was that sort which...
...generally give favorable reports of their students, and the committee reads the papers to decide whose grades should be cut down to a B. Even though all the papers might be outstanding, the committee would clamp down on most students and "equalize" thier grades. Scaling down grades ignores the fact that capable students in an honors program are highly motivated by the weekly pressure of a face-to-face meeting with their tutors and by knowing the importance of recommendations from their junior-year advisers for final honors and graduate schools. High grades could be expected, and there...