Word: phils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Confi Guide that the course lectures were "incomprehensible to those without previous training," it is unlikely that I would give further thought to taking that course. How unfortunate it would be if that claim turned out to be entirely inaccurate. Such a description was given the lectures in Phil 8 by this year's Guide, and it is the belief that that description is inaccurate that prompts this letter...
...findings. This past year the Committee on Undergraduate Education evaluated 36 courses using a computer-tabulated questionnaire that was distributed in the courses evaluated, thus insuring a valid sample. On a numerical scale of one to five representing the gamuts clear--muddled, dull-lively, and thought provoking--pedantic, Phil 8 scored respectively 1,9,3,7, and 1.8. In each case Phil 8 was higher than the average of those courses evaluated. Given that the course had an enrollment of 44.5 per cent freshmen and very few students with any previous preparation in philosophy, the CUE evaluation results are just...
...results were also incompatible with the Confi Guide's characterization of most Phil 8 sections as "lackluster...
...second paragraph of the Guide's evaluation claims that the instructor in Phil 8 had planned for a small group of freshmen considering philosophy as a concentration and more than several philosophy concentrators thoroughly acquainted with the course material and method. That's just false, and it seems silly to impute intentions to others in such a context without querying them regarding those intentions. In fact, I expected no concentrators to take the course and I intended the course for students who had had no previous acquaintance with philosophy...
...years back, one of those hype artists that linked himself to the great cause of Astroturf dubbed this particular period of sports as the Overlap season. Nowhere does this sports epithet come in more handy than at one of those tailend games when the voice of Phil Rizzutto, By Saam or Jack Brickhouse mysteriously fades into the voice of Don Meredith, Frank Gifford, or Pat Summerall. It's that period when opening football games and even pre-season shinny matches crowd out the boxscores or relegate the baseball standings in losing towns' newspapers to the last page of the sports...