Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the present chairman of the Department of Geology and Geography and his successor have expressed the opinion that the study of "human" geography belongs in a department separate from the existing one which combines...
Francis Birch '24, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, feels that the human geography "could be taught equally well either in a department of its own or in the history or government departments." The new developments in geography bear little relationship to physical geography, but "they are closely identified with the social sciences," he said...
When this department was created, McKinstry explained, "geography was viewed from a physical aspect, and it was then called physiography." But over the years geography developed rapidly "under the title of human geography, which is not very closely related to geology...
...math? "Why should everybody pursue algebra, physics and chemistry? Must everyone play the piano, or play football? Granted that a knowledge of arithmetic and general science is essential, how far beyond that are low-ability students supposed to go?" Summing-up Hollinshead credo: "We do not believe that human truth is always and everywhere the same. We believe it varies and changes with time and place . . . We also believe that education has something to do with preparing the student to be able to adjust (horrible word of the critics...
Over the weekend the President indicated that some progress had been made in settling the controversy, adding that there were "simple problems" in the discussion which "we will be able to solve relatively easily." There are other difficulties involved, however, which "will be argued by human beings for a very, very long time from...