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...speak so somberly and critically on this occasion, but I feel I must. Your years at Harvard have been among the most tormented that have ever beset institutions of higher learning in this country. The effect of these years on each of you is something which only you can assess. Probably it will become clear with the passing of time. But troubled as the years have been I cannot believe-at least I do not want to believe-the effect will prove to have been wholly negative...
...shortcomings of the world, and of ourselves, on scapegoats-even to light fires or throw stones-for personal relief or for exploitation-easy and totally unworthy. It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation. to refuse to become frustrated and angry: to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain; to determine to be adult and fair: and thus to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism or hopelessness. It is a long way around, but it is the civilized way, and the only way for those who have come truly...
...week, their apprehension turns less on the almost certain resumption of protest than on the possibility of terrorist violence. The worst such incident to date, last month's bombing of the mathematics research center at the University of Wisconsin, left a badly demoralized campus amid the rubble. To assess the implications of that bitter event for academic institutions elsewhere, TIME Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski visited the university and sent this report...
...them help the dehired executive to size up the job market, select companies that might use his services, prepare résumés and develop contacts. THinc. and North also provide extensive personal counseling aimed at getting the executive to assess realistically his strengths and weaknesses and, most important, to rebuild his confidence...
...nearby villa. Cabinet ministers, aides, politicians and Republican candidates churn in and out of the small city (pop. 17,000) as the business of state continues. Nixon's changes of scene, of course, inevitably alter San Clemente's own scene for both good and ill. To assess the changes, TIME Correspondents Simmons Fentress and Timothy Tyler collaborated on this report...