Word: professor
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...tense discussion of "Politics and Economic Welfare," James L. Adams, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor of Divinity, told the Divinity School Forum last night that he had decided "simply to ignore" an earlier Forum guest, the Rev. Edward A. Opitz, who defended the "Moral Basis of Capitalism...
Holding a book edited by Opitz, Adams later questioned the wisdom of ever inviting Opitz to speak at the Forum, and asked if there is "anything challenging here, anything of value." The Forum chairman then asked Adams about a speech on the "Uses of Diversity," in which the professor stated that in all academic and political areas, "we expect and promote a diversity, and even a conflict of interests and values." Adams replied that there are "degrees of relevance," and referred to "relevant diversity...
Members questioned whether there is "too much spoon-feeding" in the first year of college, William A. Klemperer '50, professor of Chemistry and a member of the CEP, said yesterday. In addition, the Committee weighed the relative merits of traditional type courses and seminars in awakening students' intellects...
Prior to the meeting, two CEP members showed conflicting attitudes towards proposals that tutorials or seminars be given in the Freshman year. Walter J. Bate '39, professor of English, viewed the proposals with skepticism. Citing the "gigantic cost" of House tutorials, he called the suggested Freshman innovations "largely academic." The present work overload on the staffs of popular departments such as English, he claimed, would also make extension of tutorial to Freshmen very difficult...
...other hand, Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government, stressed the need for making incoming "rote scholars" more adventurous. He had "mild reservations" however, about substituting seminars or tutorials for regular courses. These regular courses "may be just what the doctor ordered for Freshmen," he said...