Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students over the past several years have always indicated in referenda that they favor some sort of disciplinary procedure, but they have just as vehemently opposed the existing one. This position is reasonable and consistent. It should not be abandoned merely because the Faculty remains petulantly opposed to progress...
...Today, progress is the opiate of the people," Marshall Goldman, a professor of Economics at Wellesley College, said...
...things are going, we promise progress to everybody, but the planet just can't take it," he added...
Historically, there has been an unmistakable trend towards academic specialization at the cost of understanding. Admittedly, this academic division of labor has permitted rapid progress along narrow lines of inquiry, but this progress has served the system rather than people in the system who seek a greater understanding of the direction of modern society. Radical economics is an attempt, though not the only possible one, to provide such a general understanding. Harvard lost an excellent opportunity to encourage this attempt when it denied tenure to Sam Bowles...
...larger sense, the President's budget represents an intangible psychological setback to the progress of our city and to the hopes of our people. The indirect consequences--to our economic prosperity, to our soical progress, to our neighborhood revitalization--can't be measured in terms of dollars or programs...