Word: handlinism
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...Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, has been somewhat more outspoken. At a recent meeting of the Student-Faculty Advisory Council, he said "I don't think Hershey's memorandum is illegal or immoral, and I don't think the war in Vietnam is illegal or immoral...
...Handlin, an expert on American social history, is the author of--among other words--The Uprooted. He is teaching a course this Spring on the development of the American city and taught a course on American economic history in the Fall...
...Moore and I disagree on a great number of things, perhaps everything," Oscar Handlin said at last Tuesday's meeting of the Student-Faculty Advisory Council. Such gentlemanly disagreement has become a commonplace of SFAC, whose excitement in its first two months of life has been entirely internal...
That such a concentration in education which would result from the present pass-fail proposal is not intended is evidenced by the rejection in the December faculty meeting of Professor Handlin's proposal of a simple three graded course system. To the extend that the incentive structure implicit in the present pass-fail proposal has been appropriately represented above, this vote on Handlin's amendment is essentially a rejection of the present pass-fail proposal. What is at issue is not the objective, but the means; the pass-fail option as presently proposed is clearly unsatisfactory...
...induce students to channel much effort outside of graded courses. The fifth course proposal comes the closest, and is consistent with the premise that the allocation of effort implicit in a four course graded system is preferred to three, a premise substantialted by the faculty's action on the Handlin Amendment. The faculty and student body need reconsider the present pass-fail vote in light of that vote. Mahlon Straszheim Assistant Professor Department of Economics