Word: syllabus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arab mayors have been kept in charge of local government, Arab judges in charge of local law. The Jordanian syllabus, although purged of all inflammatory anti-Israel material, is still used in West Bank schools. Israeli agricultural experts dispense advice to Arab farmers. While business on the whole is down because of the loss of Arab tourism, the occupied areas are not economically stagnant. There is a reasonable amount of practical cooperation with the Arabs, but Israeli officials do not deceive themselves about the depth of hostility toward their rule and, as a result, permit a good deal of criticism...
...BPRSC. The daily routine of the College had been successfully disrupted and people were now addressing themselves to the Five Demands. Friday, the following day, was quiet and tense. The uneasy calm over the student body was obvious in some classes, where the demands were discussed rather than syllabus material. But it was quiet. Everyone was waiting for something to happen...
Perhaps also, Mr. Horowtiz, another signer of the letter, does not remember discussing the required pro-seminar with the CRIMSON and saying, "nobody likes the course, it's very abstract and very general." Whether the students' suggestions that they be allowed to help write the syllabus and choose the reading list constitutes a "complete overhaul" of the course is, of course, open to debate. Surely Miss Kyle, a third signer of the letter, remembers saying Monday night that "the consensus of the meeting was that the required courses be made much more flexible...
...memorandum reports that the dean, William A. Doebele Jr., believes the instructor, Siegfried M. Breuning, committed an unintentional mistake by releasing a syllabus containing material which, if taken out of context, might be considered inflammatory...
Breuning, visiting lecturer in Transportation had issued a syllabus describing his course, Planning 11-3b: "An End to Urban Violence," as aiming at the creation of a program to eliminate urban riots. Breuning called off Planning 11-3b when 100 black students arrived at the course's first meeting Feb. 7, saying they could not allow the course to be given at Harvard...