Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jones stresses that this isn't a "dumb jock course" and is quite sensitive about the course's nickname. For five weeks, students are asked to keep logs detailing their daily activities. A paper based on the log enables the student to analyze his overall lifestyle in the Harvard society...
Jones feels that his course helps students discover how to balance their hectic Harvard lives better through the personal awareness garnered from the log analysis.
The basketball class resembled a Harvard varsity scrimmage with Brian Banks and Walter Hines balancing the opposition squad. But the main attraction was Jones, who captained the Oberlin College cagers during his collegiate career. An awesome outside shooter, the 5'8", 35-year old guard proved he hadn't lost...
Jones also starred in golf, baseball and football while at Oberlin, where he majored in psychology. He did graduate work at Temple, received his doctorate from Yale, and moved to Harvard in 1970 in his teaching capacity.
On the strength of this work, Jones decided to teach a junior tutorial on the sports personality. Reaction to the tutorial was so favorable that Psych. and Soc. Rel. 1860 was established to help meet student demand for instruction in the subject. Still, Jones likes to limit the class to...