Word: belief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Bok released a statement yesterday attributing Harvard's reluctance to take a stand on moral issues to his belief that such stands may imperil the University's finances and its ability to contribute to society as a place of free thought, inquiry and open discussion...
Ross D. Boylan '81, also a promoter of a J.P. Stevens boycott, said yesterday that Bok's belief that universities should avoid taking moral or political stands is "an excuse for inaction." Harvard in effect makes a moral statement in refusing to comment on a moral, ethical or political question, Boylan said, adding, "Harvard can't remain above it all as Bok claims...
...1920s reviewing board--known mysteriously as Committee G (because no one could remember its real title: The Committee on Methods of increasing the Intellectual Interest and Raising the Intellectual Standards of Undergraduates)--declared that the rank of tutor and lecturer should not be separated because "There is a growing belief that mere lecturing is not teaching, and every professor will, therefore, wish to have such personal contact with his students as the tutorial method implies." Apparently professors today suffer no such yearnings...
...Africa and world-wide. Conversely, it would be a powerful blow to the arrogant self confidence of the Nationalists in South Africa. As Donald Woods, exiled South African newspaper editor and Harvard Nieman fellow, explained in a recent interview with The Crimson: The South African government has this belief that Uncle Sam will always bail it out. It looks upon Americans as basically white and believes that they'll think racially. It's my belief that until something is done that actually costs the United States, something that proves that the U.S. is not kidding around the South African government...
...make a hero of Mr. Yates for an action which was not only irresponsible but illegal. Mr. Yates poses the question: "Why should I have to defer to someone else's definition of acceptable risk?" The answer lies in the moral values which underpin our system of law: the belief that human life is sacred and, therefore, the individual is not free to sacrifice...