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...alas, the multitudes were soon disappointed as the seminar leader, John Hoberman, uttered the words heard so often in the week following registration: "This course is not an easy one. Simply because it deals with sport does not mean...
...philosophical overtone of the material was more than a coincidence since Hoberman's other courses include one which studies the philosophy of Kierkegaard, an author Hoberman quotes almost as often as English 160a's Robert Chapman mutters "George Bernard Shaw...
...Hoberman, it must be understood, is an intellectual in the truest sense of the word. He is not like your everyday Harvard professor who has a couple of pops and enjoys the tenured existence--the refugee from Berkeley is not yet a professor but rather an aspiring one who works out of his Scandanavian Department office in Boylston Hall...
...course, Hoberman's subject matter is not without its drawbacks. The novelty of his arguments are so new that the class, as naive as anyone else when the course began, was virtually unable to question the ideas Hoberman presented. Although we learned, we really only learned what he wanted...
...mean to slight the teaching abilities of the instructor, but rather indicate the problems encountered in the presentation of new ideas. Virtually everything taught in the weekly sessions is contained in an essay presented by Hoberman at UMass last year. The field, obviously, is largely unexplored...