Word: fields
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...real test of academic freedom, beyond the elimination of unabashed political gangsterism, is whether some of the people appointed in every field do work that most of their colleagues believe to be fundamentally misguided and dangerous, but which, by an act of self-doubt or self-transcendence, these same skeptical colleagues are bale to see as the possible vehicle of a powerful truth. Professors often fail to rise to this standard of judgement out of prejudice, mean-mindedness, and the narcosis induced by membership in a mutual admiration society. But they also fail out of a kind of hypocrisy...
...nothing to do with more than a minute part of this research. For the sake of this minimal scholarly advantage, we get continued uncertainty about the issues of academic freedom that are central to the University. Out of confusion or anger, many people will oppose HIID appointments and field programs without insisting on the difference between academic and political activity even if at heart most of them do seem to care about the difference. Others will be misinterpreted as if they were careless of academic freedom. Though the academic classes usually prefer distinguish to inventing, this problem seems to overtax...
...nothing but blue skies for the thinclads Saturday as a cloudless afternoon and a 117 to 45 whomping of Yale at Soldiers Field dispelled the reading period blues--at least...
...list of Crimson victors in the meet reads something like a Homeric catalogue of the conquerors at Troy. The thinclads made a clean sweep in the field events, suffering a lone casualty in the high jump...
Harvard sprinters had a field day as well, with Chapus edging out Yale's Bob Cottrell in the 200 meters and a Crimson sweep of Nsiah, Salvo, and Phil Askenazy in the 100-meter dash...