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Donald A. Gibbs, former assistant professor of Chinese, who started teaching the University of California at Davis this fall, complained frequently last spring about how his course, Hum 132, "Chinese Literature in Revolution," was going. Gibbs says now he believes the problems in the course were rooted in his own insensitivity to changes in student attitutdes over the last few years. When he first started teaching about China in the early '60s, he says, no one in America accepted any aspects of the Chinese revolution as positive, and he spent a good deal of time defending Mao Tse-tung. Then...
Before coach George Ford substituted the unknown Nelson into the game midway through a boring first half, the play had wandered back and forth and was somewhat sloppy. Ho hum, Crimson goalie Fred Herold had made three or four great saves, but that was to be expected of the talented junior. Chris Saunders was moving the ball well behind the Harvard forward line, but few solid scoring chances developed. The crisp passing game Ford would like to see from his players had, for the most part, turned a bit soggy...
...with a stern, approving smile, and I smiled back just as firmly behind set lips, because on important mornings you can forget to brush your teeth, and I wasn't taking any chances. And it came to pass that I entered Harvard, duly taking a folklore and mythology course (Hum 9b) where I read Dune, Frank Herbert's science fiction novel of ecology and political intrigue, for the fourth time...
...everything aboard the ship is archaic: on windless days, the steel-hulled Eagle, built in 1936, vibrates with the hum of her 728-h.p. diesel engine. Power winches, not able-bodied seamen, crank the windlass to hoist anchor. In the communications shack, the latest electronic gear helps plot the ship's position. On the foremast, a slowly rotating radar scanner keeps an electronic...
...education while a child in Mexico and then as a more advanced student of the classics in Spain and Italy, taught Barba-Martin to "enjoy literature as fiction and also as thought." He said he has "definitely found much greater ability" here among the students in his section of Hum 55 than he did at either Tufts or the University of Massachusetts. And Barba-Martin feels he must work harder, especially on the "style of the prepared lecture," before he is ready to teach. Like his thesis, Barba-Martin predicts that his teaching will be a "modest but necessary contribution...