Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guerrilla troops of Afro members did not converge on Hunt Hall ready to attack Professor Bruening if he refused to change his course topic. About a hundred members did come to the class meeting and one read to statement clarifying Afro's objections to the course. Afro did not protest the original course syllabus only because of ideological differences. The syllabus indicated that the material taught in the course might directly endanger the lives of black people who, because they live in ghettos, could easily become involved in a "riot". The syllabus offered city planners a chance to study...
Public relations was a prime topic of discussion. "We're not money-grubbing capitalists," Scott A. Abell '72. "People have got to understand that we're working our way through school...
...Bowle's survey. First, he says that "The sample is sufficiently large to establish its main conclusions." In the first place, let me point out that this class is not a random sample of Harvard students--even less so than other classes because of its politically oriented topic. Therefore, any claims that the 163 students of Soc Sci 125 stand for "Harvard" are questionable, to say the least...
Bowles said that the purpose of the survey was to explain basic statistical concepts and to provide an indication about the class structure of universities, a topic which will be discussed later in the term...
Occasionally, it risks a topic with little interdisciplinary appeal. A conference last year on historical demography did attract one theologian, but ended up almost exclusively with historians, demographers, and historical demographers. Since the volume itself cannot represent men from every discipline, goes the logic, at least men from every discipline can read the volume...