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Still, he is optimistic. "A lot of us get too concerned about the permanence of institutions and pay too little attention to what they do," he says. He counts on the school's experimental aura to engage students in a day when collegians increasingly regard traditional education as "irrelevant." If Franconia can awaken more and more students to their own capacities, Botstein believes, the problems of funding and accreditation can be solved. However he fares, Botstein is firmly convinced that a president should never become inseparably tied to one institution. He expects to retire before...
Pusey warned that extremist radicals, and the mindless "self-styled moderates" who back them up, are using distortion and misrepresentation designed to magnify indignation and sow distrust." From this, Pusey has sadly come to see that what moves student politics is the drunken aura of power. That greatest scourge of academia, popular anti-intellectualism, is again, as in the time of Joe McGarthy, panting and slobbering. Most frightening of all, it is coming not from smelly old Washington, but from "in our midst...
...Crimson's attitude towards the sport that baffles its critics. The reason that the Harvard oarsmen gave this year for racing Yale is the same one their predecessors gave in 1965, when the Crimson was allowed to have its will without much protest. It is the aura of tradition which surrounds the race, as well as the intriguing idea of a four-mile test of strength, that makes the Yale race so much more attractive to Harvard, and despite the fact that the Crimson has won the last seven races by a combined margin of 521/2 lengths, both sides feel...
...decline. Most Americans still want to believe in their President. Nonetheless, apprehension persists that the substance, if not the appearance, of leadership is absent from the White House. Says Correspondent Sidey: "The presidency as a positive force is a concept which has escaped Nixon. His Administration has an aura of negativism." For many citizens weary of tumult, negativism may be enough. But if last week showed anything, it showed that the part of the nation which demands more than negativism cannot be silenced for long...
...That was the highlight of my career," the sophomore said. "In most sports the Olympies are the epitome of competition, and the aura that surrounds them is exhilarating. Now I'm really looking forward to the 1972 Olympies-if I make the team, I'll go to Sapora Japan," he said...