Word: academia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Student Study, a research project on the effects of the undergraduate experience on personality, finds that many students arrive at Harvard with a set of personality characteristics well-suited to business, but are looking forward to a career in one of the more "glamorous" professions: law, medicine, academia. Finding that there are more things to do in the college community than study, these students allow the college to develop their personalities and turn them away from the purely academic life toward the myriad of social and business activities available to undergraduates...
...used by the administration to mask the institutional racism on this campus. The college is turning its back on the black students, as though we should be "grateful" just to be at Fair Harvard. "Veritas" as a motto is a farce. There has been a failure of those in academia to come to grips with the substantive issues in reality, without some form of condescension or patronization; they say that progress has been made, while defining that progress themselves. We are no longer fooled...
...mark and more people than Harvard fans will watch his performance. The Tigers drafted the fireballer from the Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga after he graduated from the Nichols School, but he accepted Harvard's offer instead. Pro scouts kept their eyes on him during his first two years at academia and lured him with offers after his sophomore year, when he had a 9-3 record...
...mine can grow, we can affect a rapprochement and try to end this mess." It is indeed unfortunate that there aren't, as one student said, more Charles V. Hamilton's around. His very presence here is a salient indication of the black leadership void which exists in academia as in politics...
...students at Harvard are academics first and activists second. But that's logical you say; after all, the college experience is primarily intellectual. Here we are back again at the internal dialogue between Thought and Action. It's not that easy. The real world eventually invades the sanctity of academia: military training on campus, defense grants, weaponry courses at the Business School, the draft ranking system, and the threat of induction immediately following graduation. The student is being acted upon, why should he refrain from acting...