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...short time I've been here, I've learned a couple of things besides how to play squash. I've learned that this school, while having some damn fine teachers, tends disturbingly often to neglect or reject them. The latest Harvard teacher to whom this has happened is Diana Thomson, currently at the center of the flap over dropping fiction writing from Harvard's expository writing program...
...wife, Diana Thomson, one of the protagonists in the controversy over dropping fiction-writing from the expository writing program (reported in The Crimson on March 6 and 7) can make her own defense, and has done...
...Harvard combine intellectual excellence with humaneness? Shouldn't the integration of these two qualities be our ultimate goal? James C. Thomson Jr. Curator, Nieman Foundation
...Thomson said the basis of the difficulty lies in her fundamental philosophical difference with Marius over the role of a teacher. Thomson says she believes good teaching demands compassion toward students as well as detached criticism. "Marius major objection to fiction and the way we teach it is that we deal with emotion," she noted, and added Marius' decision reflects Harvard's reluctance to admit that good teaching involves caring about students...
...Thomson has written letters to Marius, Dean Rosovsky, and Standing Committee members protesting the decision and outlining her dissatisfaction with Marius. It looks like the fight isn't over...