Word: gov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meeting before the two law school groups reached their decision, Dwight Hall's ten-man executive committee voted overwhelmingly not to invite the governor, on the grounds that "the crying need of the social crisis is understanding, and that Gov. Wallace would not provide that understanding." Dwight Hall announced that it would sponsor a series of lectures and forums on civil rights, with representation given to segregationist views...
...none of these appeals, there remains a choice between "Groups Theory with Application to Statistical Mechanics" (Physics 264) and Louis Hartz' strangely timed course on nineteenth century political thought (Gov. 203). If absolutely nothing lures you, then await the gentlemanly hour of eleven to arise...
...given last year, but certainly welcome this year, is Gov. 121, "Bureaucracy," an understanding of the contents of which is prerequisite for success in anything. On the necklace of history courses at eleven, the brooch is History 184a, which emphasizes Chinese thought from the Han dynasty to the Ch'ing dynasties. For diversion there are introductions to Czech and Polish (Slavic Ca and Da) and Hittite (Linguistics 225). The last presumes no previous knowledge of cuneiform and should just round out you Gen Ed program...
Aside from la, the star government course is Shklar's "Legal Theory" (Gov. 108), a subject singularly relevant to the crisis in the relations between law and action in the South. Crane Brinton's "Intellectual History of Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries" examines the spread of many of the ideas, embalmed in law, which are now being tested by actin. Another approach to the same complex of problems is H. D. Aiken's Phil. 75, "The Conflict of Ideals in Modern Civilization...
...courses suffer the same fate of constriction. Gov. 213a looks at "Social Theory from Marx through Freud" with the vision of Barrington Moore. An all-star cast of Raiffa, Schlaifer, and Pratt will discuss decision theory in Stat. 288. And in response to the first commandment, "Let there be light," we have Via. Stud. 145, "The Flics," courtesy of R. G. Gardner. Harvard students are lucky to have such a pious faculty...