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...genuine interest in what they are teaching. Certainly neither the Department nor, I am confident, the vast majority of Harvard undergraduates want the tutorial to become an occasion for ideological indoctrination. If this is what the author is suggesting, then he should be ashamed of himself. Steven Ozment Head Tutor...
Ozment says that the department does not believe that tutors can provide useful instruction in areas with which they are unfamiliar. One tutor points out, however, that while it is difficult to teach an unfamiliar topic, there is no reason to assume that non-Western or "Third World" topics are any less familiar to a Medieval historian than the subtleties of Freudian theory--a new topic under the recent proposals...
...elimination of the Marxism unit has provoked a notable amount of dismay from students and tutors alike. It is cited as the most popular topic on the list, and interest in it this year crossed lines of political partisanship. One tutor reports. "One of my most Reaganite students found the section on alienation particularly absorbing." Tutors also say that the opportunities for reading Marx in the original are fairly rare and that this leads to many misinterpretations of his writings in subsequent work...
John D. Barnwell, resident tutor in Physics, who is arranging the celebration, said Currier's diversity is outstanding because House residents "have dealt with many issues Harvard met in the 1970s," including coeducation and an increasing number of Black and Third World students--issues to be discussed at anniversary seminars next week...
John Hildebidle, senior tutor of Adams House, said yesterday that he had beard no complaints other than the usual regrets concerning particular choices...