Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intensive discussions were held as to the content of the course, how it would be run, and what the goals of the course would be. The group held meetings which were intended to be "samples" of typical section meetings; the group discussed and criticized them to determine the flows of discussion that might take place...
...course is divided into four sections: Race, Imperialism, Labor, and Theory. Each section will begin with two speakers followed by a series of section meetings. The speakers will raise important issues, and the sections will discover that it disagrees with certain ideas, is uncertain about others, and is in confusion about yet others. At the end of each section, the group will refer to the reading lists and select a unit of readings to clarify the dispute and motivate further discussion. The class will do the readings and then return to the seminar to re-evaluate the old discussion...
...text speaks for itself: "As President, I would stop the bombing of the North as an acceptable risk for peace... In weighing that risk--and before taking any action--I would place key importance on evidence of Communist willingness to restore the demilitarized zone..." The purposeful ambiguity of the section of text in which this sentence appears cannot disguise the fact that Humphrey, like Johnson, demands crucial concessions from the North Vietnamese before the U.S. will make concessions...
Support for the educational philosophy of the course is the second qualification for sectionmen. They must be committed to a discussion directed to the interest of the students in the section. Teaching is a skill which can be developed if one is willing to work hard at it. Most teachers at Harvard are primarily researchers, they teach as a secondary or tertiary part of their occupation. We feel that teaching requires a separate and distinct skill which, while not inconsistent with research, must be separately and carefully developed...
...other hand, Music I enrollment jumped from 275 to about 325 this year. Head section man Lowell E. Lindgren yesterday attributed "some of the increase" to pass-fail students. Over 100 applied to take Music I pass-fail, and the course staff decided Saturday to accept all of them, because of what Lindgren called the students' "convincing reasons...