Word: academiaã
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University President Lawrence H. Summers stressed Harvard’s obligations to support the nation in its war efforts and called for a rethinking of academia??s attitudes toward patriotism in an interview yesterday...
Current polls leave no doubt that the peacenik naysayers now running to the flowers are but a tiny minority of our people. Yet they scream in a voice that is loud and familiar. The neo-hippies who jeer from their idle repose in academia??s ideological daisy-fields are relics of the slovenly anarchism that was born of our parents’ generation, reached its apogee at the height of the Vietnam War, and survives to this day in tenured faculty positions everywhere. And it is the fantasies of that generation—its moral relativism, its cult...
...Neill will continue to serve as Staff Director, a position she held under Summers’ predecessor Neil L. Rudenstine. O’Neill said that she was supportive of the idea of the new position and said it reflected “the professionalization of academia?? that has occurred over the past ten years, where professional staff support and preparation is a must...