Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Harvard's viewpoint, of course, this is fortunate. The development that the Planning Board proposes would change the character not only of Eliot and Kirkland Houses but of the whole University. Since the City Council has shown no interest in discussing the Board's report, there is a healthy chance that it will not be approved...
...order to understand how the Harvard Philosophy Department stands on such issues, it is well to consider certain basic views of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who was the chief inspirer of that viewpoint known as linguistic analysis. This is for two reasons: because Wittgenstein's views have so influenced philosophy at Harvard, and because they illustrate so well the difference between humanistic issues and those technical issues with which the Harvard department is largely concerned. Wittgenstein's professed ultimate aim was to show that the traditional philosophical problems were really pseudo-problems; he wished to dissolve them by analysis of language...
About half the members of the Harvard Philosophy Department subscribe to the viewpoint of linguistic analysis. Almost all the others may be described as analysis itself, but the term "analysis", as applied at Harvard, has a special implication; it implies that since only certain technical questions are appropriate for analytic treatment, only these questions can seriously be considered. For example, a typical Harvard philosophy professor would consider it quite proper to analyze Wittgenstein's notion of "criteria"" for use of words but he would not find it proper to analyze Sartre's use of the word "freedom." The various areas...
...eminence of 100-group courses, as they are now constituted, seems to be one of he reasons why instructors treat course material from a technical viewpoint. These courses are meant for both undergraduates and graduate students. But in the great majority of cases, the subject-matter of a 100-group course is not meant for both groups, but rather is chosen primarily to aid the graduate student attain a technical mastery of the discipline...
...course, one for all of Latin America. Although Mexico seems unconcerned, responsible leaders in many 6f the other nations realize that the Soviet presence in Cuba is a bigger threat to them than to the U.S. Their growing willingness to do something about it is. from the U.S. viewpoint, one of many encouraging signs in Latin America. The trend is such that one overenthusiastic State Department official last week crowed: "I defy anyone to find any year in the last 150 when so much progress has taken place in Latin America...