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...Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy, joked easily with the hordes in Lowell Lecture Hall about the obvious difficulties of teaching a course on the meaning of life, saying that grading would be especially problematical...
Before telling the 500 listeners that he would require a termpaper and a final examination, Nozick joked that everyone would receive "Incompletes" pending the continuation of their lives. After 15 years, he suggested, everyone would write to him what they had done since taking the course and he would then grade their lives--C minus for example...
...Nozick declined Monday to discuss the aspirations he holds for the course until it is under way, but said that the course will be a serious one and is not the joke many students seem to find...
...tutor who is familiar with Nozick's philosophy courses suggested, however, that Nozick would surprise students by concluding that the question of the meaning of life is itself meaningless...
...associate professor of Chinese; Theodore Morrison, professor of English; Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy; Joseph S. Nye, Jr., program director of the Center for International Affairs; Gustay F. Papanek, former director of the Development Advisory Service; John R. Pappenheimer, professor of Psychology; E. L. Patullo, director, Center for the Behavioral Sciences; Martin Peretz, assistant professor of Social Studies; Charles P. Price, Preacher to the University; John B. Radner, assistant professor of English; Robert Rosenthal, professor of Social Psychology; Robert A. Rothstein, assistant professor of Slavic Languages and Literature; Zick Rubin, assistant professor of Social Psychology; Samuel Sampson, lecturer in Sociology...