Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Bok, a university's "institutional goal" should not be "to reform society in specific ways." Rather, a university's special mission is the discovery and transmission of knowledge," which by itself serves a major social function...
...affirm or deny a link between profits derived from exploitation and the financial well-being of this university. It is rather, Mr. President, to express my surprise that a university dedicated, in your words, to a "continuing critique of our values, our behavior, our institutions, and our social practices" commits so little of its resources to study and instruction on this question. The Economics Department, where one might logically expect to find this continuing critique, is rather more committed to making capitalism work smoothly that to subjecting it to basic critical evaluation. The economics of institutional racism, imperialism, and much...
...experience with Diana Thomson's fiction class this fall stands above and beyond a whole multitude of highlights in what for me has been a very exciting and satisfying first year at Harvard. While immersing myself in extracurricular activities that included drama, work, and an active social life, I found little reason to give serious attention to my three other general education courses during the first half of the year. On the other hand, Mrs. Thomson made my first encounter with creative writing not only a learning experience, but also the only class in which I felt a real academic...
...most insidious is Bok's pat on the head and counsel to mind our studies: "Individual scholars will occasionally have an influence through the persuasive power of their knowledge and ideas." Social change has only occurred in this country through organized protest, persistence, and practice. Carol Lynn Dornbrand...
...Misanthrope. This is quite possibly Moliere's sharpest social commentary, although it bombed in 1666. Alceste is the misanthrope, a man obsessed with sincerity and full of hatred for polite society, which he considers founded on flattery, mendacity and falsehood. Alceste's love for a flitty coquette becomes his last link to mankind. Inevitably, he discovers her insincerity too, reinforcing his misanthropic idealism and leaving him unloved and unloving...