Word: freidel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freidel was asked about the charge that the course seems to some to have a white complexion...
...outside the family," Freidel said. "I'm under suspicion of being a white racist and a black racist at the same time. The truth is, I'm not trying to be a racist at all, but to give the best insight I can into a very painful subject....I'm not an activist, I'm a scholar. I wouldn't have agreed to teach this course if I didn't think it would be a scholarly contribution. I'd like to run this as a Harvard course, as a subject for serious study. I'm not interested in just...
...Then Freidel turned to the charge that his lecturing was too anecdotal: "Well, you know, we accepted all sophomores, juniors and seniors who asked to take the course. We couldn't take everybody else but we let in some black freshmen. It may very well be that my lectures are ill-suited for freshmen and sophomores. I put in anecdotes to illustrate points--students complain if lectures become straight factual presentations. I assumed when I saw their backgrounds--and these are great kids, caught up in a great movement -- that these students already knew about Nat Turner and John Brown...
...Some of the criticism has been unauthorized and unconstructive," says Roger Brooks, '71. "My impression is that some of them think the more noise they make, the more they will be able to accomplish in trying to make the professor see it their way....Professor Freidel is really feeling his way through. But I've been enjoying the course. I've learned a lot, especially during the sections...
...close it down. The administrators are trying to face all possibilities realistically--but it's possible that by being so concerned with developing antidotes, we're actually helping to create some of the symptoms. Particularly worrisome is the possibility of a picket line which students, and perhaps even Freidel, would not cross...