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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to do some serious thinking on that issue of credit. Master Chalmers is still behind us. But credit will no doubt mean restrictions, and the New College has to be wary of restrictions. Then there are the larger questions of whether we should accept a status that we believe illegitimate, and of how we expect to change anything around here...

Author: By Sandy Bonder, | Title: Harvard New College Has Begun-Again | 10/7/1969 | See Source »

When Ptashne saw Dorfman's committee statement on Friday, he was "very much confused to see Doty's name there." He said that Dorfman "clearly expected us to accept his proposal and his document, especially when it bad Doty's name...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Doty Says He Didn't Join Group Opposing War Vote | 10/6/1969 | See Source »

...month to withdraw from ROTC. He said yesterday that he "had doubts about ROTC" for over a year before a cruise to Guantanamo and Key West last summer convinced him to leave. "I was so sure I didn't want to be an officer that I was willing to accept being a sailor." he said...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Two Who Left Naval ROTC Here Must Serve Two Years With Navy | 10/4/1969 | See Source »

...election is very much a frame in the national newsreel. Lindsay is the impatient man, the activist and agitator that Robert Kennedy became in his last year, the self-righteous, abrasive enemy of the way things are, who will make blunders and enemies but who will not placidly accept society's faults. He wants to prove the very problematical thesis that big cities are governable, given enough cash and imagination. It is a bad time for such men because many whites feel that there have been too many concessions to blacks already?concessions that whites must pay for. The American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NEW YORK: THE REVOLT OF THE AVERAGE MAN | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...assertive members of the Kerner Commission and for his aides to take as gospel the commission's key argument: that white racism is at the root of much urban turmoil. Except for the intellectuals and the ultra-liberals?who are already Lindsay supporters?most white New Yorkers do not accept that contention. Marchi says that the commission report was "useful." But he adds: "Unlike some other people, I feel no personal sense of guilt. I have no personal hang-up about it. My parents were eating spaghetti in Italy, remember." Procaccino, when asked last week if he agreed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NEW YORK: THE REVOLT OF THE AVERAGE MAN | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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