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...which the Eichmann affair has unfolded provides substantial grounds for fear that justice will be the least of the ends at which the trial will aim," Oscar Handlin, professor of History, charged today...
...article in Issues magazine Handlin pointed out that Israel's jurisdiction in the case is extremely shaky. The Zionist claim to be acting in the name of all Jews fails to include "those who consider themselves as Jews but who are not committed to the Zionist ideology...
...However, Handlin is not entirely convinced that examinations provide the best test of a student's knowledge. For several years, until the course grew too big for sections, he assigned final papers, but without section men, students have no one with whom they can discuss their conclusions...
...Oscar Handlin, professor of History, who teaches History 163, feels that "open-ended" questions are not helpful to students. They need to have ground rules, to see the clear lines of a question...
Even when he assigned final papers, Handlin found it difficult to determine the ideal approach. "If I let students choose their own topics, they often read intensively in a narrow area, tangential to the course; if I assigned the topic, attempting to pull the course together, it became too much like a final exam...