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Most educational leaders at Harvard at the time shared Perry's conviction. President Lowell announced the same year that "it seemed clear" Harvard's tutorial program would "instill a desire" in undergraduates to attain academic distinction and ever-rising levels of intellectual achievement. Professor A.C. Hanford triumphantly wrote to Perry, "As a result of eight year's experience as a tutor, I am confident that the tutorial system has been responsible for increasing the standard of scholarship and for encouraging men to try for something more than a C mark...
...treaty was signed between the U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union, there was a great discrepancy in nuclear weapons between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. At that time all three countries had in mind to prevent China from acquiring nuclear weapons, but this aim was not attained. The U.S. and Great Britain also wanted to limit the Soviet Union in nuclear weapons. Did they attain this aim? In 1972, the Soviet Union had tried its best to catch up. We cannot say that by 1972 the Soviet Union was already on a par with...
Naturally, Images [Jan. 1] could not have included every event of this sort, but the violence in Lebanon that has caused immense devastation and misery, and threatens to attain wider and more sinister proportions in the region, was absent from your account. A tragedy of this order should have been included...
...Summer School opens with its largest student body ever. Michael Shinagel, director of the Summer School, reveals that 74 per cent of the enrollees have yet to attain puberty. "Welcome to Camp Harvard," Shinagel grins...
...only then conclude that the authors then equate self-respect with (a) a massive and determined drive to "make it to the top" and (b) a willingness to sacrifice friends and friendships in order to attain this. It would seem to me that the above two qualities manage to sum up quite concisely everything that is wrong, offensive and self-destructive in the character of the traditional American male: the obsessive tendency to predicate one's valuation of oneself entirely on one's occupational successes and an inability to derive satisfaction and security from personal relationships. Surely if one does...