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Forty years ago, Harvard's sociology department merged with social psychology and cultural anthropology to become the Department of Social Relations, under the leadership of Talcott Parsons. Parsons, trained in philosophy and intrigued by several areas within the social sciences, envisioned a broad-based department which could transcend individual disciplines in its study of society as a whole...
AIDS is not just an academic question. The Festival of Life is consciousness-raising about AIDS, proving once and for all that it is not a "special interest" issue, but one that concerns us all. The festival also points out the potential that we have as students to transcend the routines of college life...
...Angeles artist David Hockney told a crowd of several hundred in the Carpenter Center last night that the way to involve a viewer with a picture is to transcend the limitations of a single view point...
...challenge for K-School professors. Ronald F. Ferguson, assistant professor of public policy, was initially intimidated with the prospect of teaching students his own age of older who had more practical experience than he did. But the government expert says he has learned to help his students transcend the limits of their experiences. "They've had narrow experiences and know a lot more about these narrow experiences. I bring partly theoretical and academic knowledge and train them how to think broadly," he says...
...Unshakeable faith in the ability of education, intelligence, and popular agitation to "transcend politics" and "end the scourge" of the nuclear arms race. This is a personal favorite; also the one shown most glaringly by Dr. Lown. A typical Lown statement, reported in The Crimson: "We agreed from the inception not to be involved in politics because we wanted to work jointly with the Soviets...