Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From that work, Thomson said, he got interested in "how good and how bad we are in forming gradualist alternatives to underdeveloped countries." An expanded version of his thesis topic will be coming out in book form next year. Thomson is presently working on a study on "how we made policy toward East Asia in 1930's juxtaposed with how we make policy...
...lecture system at Harvard gives Professors a chance to develop their ideas on some chosen topic at length and regularly over a period of time. It is far superior to the British, system, say, in which lectures are sporadic events to be made use of or not as the mood strikes one. Nevertheless, the course system at Harvard does not work very well largely because all the reading is assigned--as if it will be done simultaneously with the lectures. Another drawback is that the educational process is rounded off, in good European fashion, by a massive examination...
...DOING the reading till the end also means that the course paper is done with a very sketchy understanding of what the course is all about. This forces most courses to allow almost complete freedom in the choice of paper topic--and often people write papers that they might have written without having taken the course at all. In short, anybody who does not read throughout the year loses much of the educational benefit of the lecture system...
...this does not mean a restriction of the freedom in choice of topic, because papers that absorb the methodology or the ambience of a professor would also be indications that something of educational value has been transferred to the student during the course...
Chris Hart, a sophomore, wrote the third item on the bill, vet another modern work called Play, a title which has been pretentious for several years now Hart, who oddly enough directs and stars as well, casts vet another glance at that eternally popular topic: who is insane, society or the non-conformist? Society, typified by Bruce (Hart), wears a tuxedo, goes to college, talks in TV commercial slogans. Bruce's friends are Harry (Nathan Taylor), who likes to screw girls, and Erica (Barbara Lanckton), who goes to bed with Harry and later slits her wrists when the world becomes...