Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course was taught in the evening. Before it, we usually are dinner together, often with a guest who was an expert in the topic under discussion. For example, many of the cases we were studying were in the field of school desegregation and reverse discrimination. J. Harold Flannery, then Director of the Harvard Center for Law and Education, was a frequent guest, as was Archibald Cox, who had field an amicus curie brief in DeFunis v. Odegard, involving the question of whether a law school may constitutionally give preference to members of racial minorities. When the Supreme Court's decision...
RACE RELATIONS has not been among the College's biggest successes over the past decade or so, so you have to give Dean of the College John b. Fox. Jr. '59 a certain amount of credit for taking on the controversial topic in his recently released annual report...
...selected minority issues as the topic of his annual report because of "a lot of misunderstanding over where we've been going in the past decade," he said adding that a major misconception is that Harvard favors assimilation of its minority students...
Such a statement--which would probably not be distributed before the fall--would be the first in three years on a substantially new topic...
...Official Pi Eta Speakers Club News letter" has ruised a topic of great concern to many members of the community. The club's officers have argued that the letter does not express views held by any of them, and that, on reflection, they regret the public misperception that they do hold such views. Nevertheless, the letter articulates a view of women so offensive that it constitutes a repudiation of some of the College's fundamental values. In addition, the letter makes a mockery of basic standards of civility, which the College takes seriously...