Word: originalism
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Rudenstine's family background is unusual for a Harvard president, most of whom have been of Northern European, Protestant origin. His father, who was Jewish, emigrated from Russia, and his mother is an Italian-American Roman Catholic...
Only one mystery remains about Harvard Classics--the name. Although there are rumors that members of the Classics Department started the team, none of today's players will admit its origin...
Under a "hate speech" rule adopted in 1989, members of the Brown community cannot subject "another person, group or class of persons to inappropriate, abusive, threatening or demeaning actions based on race, religion, gender, handicap, ethnicity, national origin or sexual orientation." It was this rule that provided the grounds for the Disciplinary Council's decision. With similarly vague policies at Harvard and other campuses around the country, the premises behind bans on abusive speech need to be examined...
...while trash may be divine in origin, Ketelhohn--who has been the Cabot superintendent since 1984--says he wishes there was less of it about. His exhibition is meant to rally students around Cabot's recycling program, and environmental issues in general. "The planet's going to hell in a handbasket," Ketelhohn says...
Much of the stumbling and incoherence that gets in the way of effective communication these days has its origin in our failure early on to develop respect for thought processes. The way thoughts are converted into language calls for no less attention in formal schooling than geography or mathematics or biology or any of the other systematic subjects. Squeezing essential meaning into arbitrary and unworkable time limits leads to glibness on one end and exasperation on the other. We need not put up with either...