Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard the values of relativism are quickly transformed from means to ends, from mere method to metaphysics. They become the "practical postulates" of a University which wants to embrace spokesmen for opposing views in a harmonious institution. Even the religious person, moreover the believer in salvation through a particular church, must divorce his role of believer from his role of teacher. If he would teach he cannot by direct methods fish for souls...
...Advanced Standing Office has called "pre-professional specialization." The individuals in charge have generally tended to view their workshops as a kind of tutorial for freshmen. Their subject-matter will be closely related to course work, or will entail independent study for their students within the field of a particular course; the students, for the most part, will be freshmen who can show an unusual enthusiasm (the words "lively interest" are stressed time and again) and special aptitude in the field...
...approach is that of David Reisman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, and his associates. They tend to see the Program as an opportunity for true "experiments"--for trying something without precedent in previous Harvard experience. Their plans diverge from those of other workshop-leaders in several important particulars. In the first place, the Riesman group is resolved to draw students of varying interests and aptitudes. Their hope is to bring together (in six workshops, with a total capacity of 48 people) "the physicist and the economist, the astronomer and the humanist, the historian and the classicist." In addition...
Each of the associates plans to lead one or two groups, and to concentrate initially on a particular problem interesting and important to the group; after a few weeks he will steer the group into the "core reading," then will return to re-examine the original dilemma. An important part of Riesman's program is "cross-fertilization" through weekly dinners, where students will meet other staffmen and students from other sections, as well as guest speakers, and occasional joint workshop meet...
...approve of banning books because they conflict with beliefs of particular organized religions...