Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE IS some chaff, though, mixed in here with the reasoned argument. Galbraith complains that he and other Faculty members trying to stop the Vietnam war have not had "much help or even encouragement from the University government." It would have been not just out of character but also inappropriate for the Corporation to have taken a stand against the war. As President Pusey said with some justice last year, nobody, under the present system, can legitimately speak for Harvard University on a political question. Galbraith suggests it should be otherwise, but doesn't begin to explain what the composition...
...student participation in Faculty meetings, why was this question not raised with the SFAC which was created precisely to study and recommend on such matters? Why were student views on representation at Faculty meetings not developed, prepared and presented to the Faculty with the same care and reasoned argument that went into the various student presentations on ROTC? Why were the ordinary channels of discussion and persuasion avoided? Why was confrontation chosen not as the last but as the first resort...
...smooth lawyer was trying his greatest case. It was, said one who observed it, "the gutsiest performance I've ever seen or ever heard about." For seven months the argument raged. Johnson said little, but he was listening. Clifford threw all his weight behind arguments that persuaded the President to order the partial suspension of bombing of North Viet Nam on March 31 to get talks with Hanoi under way. Again, Clifford's view held sway when bombing was halted altogether on Oct. 31 in an effort to rescue the negotiations from stalemate...
...accusations are accurate, Nixon chose that course. One theory is that Nixon was trying to force Johnson to drop the Goldberg proposal. Neither Nixon nor some of his conservative al lies, such as Senator Strom Thurmond, want a liberal like Goldberg leading the court. On the other hand, this argument also suggests that Nixon does not want as one of his first official acts the task of withdrawing the nomination. To do so could incur the wrath of Goldberg's Democratic supporters in the Congress, legislators whose cooperation Nixon urgently needs...
...first argument--high fees--Labaree said, "is based on the assertion that Harvard's is caught in a financial squeeze which means that it must accept largely people who can pay for their education now and can support the university in the future." But really the endowment makes fee increases unnecessary, in fact fees could be permanently eliminated. The University of Pittsburgh, when it started receiving applications from valedictorians of little town high schools it had never heard from before (said Dean of Admission, Chase Peterson). A less expensive Harvard would also attract a more economcially diverse student body...