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...Pollack agree, stressing the improvement over the course of the term of their students' ability to present a coherent argument, to marshal facts to support it, to organize effectively, and to express themselves clearly. Reuben Brower assigns four or five papers in his English 162, as does Robert P. Wolff in Social Sciences 140. Richard Poirier, in his courses on American and English literature, is another who gives frequent paper assignments, believing the act of writing to be the most important way of transforming feelings and intimations into real knowledge...
...reunion," remarked Robert L. Wolff '36, professor of History, who seemed somehow to be moderating Gov 185, "is an extraordinary business." And so it was, the only sure signs that it was a reunion being the presence of a guest lecturer (Robert Amory, Jr. '36, Deputy Director of the C.I.A.) and the audience's funny red hats...
...show the student what he has done wrong, and suggest what to do the next time. The criticism on most term papers is insultingly brief, considering the amount of work put into the paper. "Able job," "fine work," "sloppy reasoning"--these comments do not educate. Ideally, as Robert P. Wolff noted, students should be writing papers every week, and going over them word by word with an instructor. Courses cannot fulfill this function--more properly reserved for tutorial work--but course graders might be able to talk with students about their papers, if there were more men among whom...
...Problems of American Foreign Policy" (Lowell Lecture Hall), with Robert L. Wolff '36, professor of History; Robert Amory, Jr. '36, Deputy Director for Intelligence, CIA; Robert R. Bowle, Dillon Professor of International Affairs; and McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security...
...statement itself to the home of one of the sponsors, Stephan A. Thernstrom, instructor is Government. The text, it reports, was not written by all 70 signers, but by four "young thinkers:" Thernstrom, H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, Nadav Safran, assistant professor of Government, and Robert P. Wolff '54, instructor in Philosophy...