Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dislocations of the war. Robert S. Sturgis '44, for instance, became president of the CRIMSON in 1946 and helped restart the paper after a two year lapse. "It took us about two or three years to get things back to normal," Leland said. "But we were really much better off after the war. We were more mature and able to take advantage of many more things...
...many feel that they don't really understand it. Some say they are out of touch and just don't have the information to make a judgment about student radicalism, and activism. Others dismiss it as a "tiny minority." One expressed the feeling that students today are in a better position to challenge authority than ever before. He said students today are generally brighter and more politically oriented than ever before. Many expressed envy at the open unrest in today's college. "We didn't really think for ourselves. We just took what the establishment gave us," said...
...supposed connections with social injustice, they often argue that students who feel impotent both as citizens and as a minority with limited rights and powers can make their influence felt only in the University. But the fact remains that striking at the University is likely to produce not a better society but one more repressive and not at all more enlightened. Whatever else may be said of Harvard, its intellectual life serves to generate criticisms of society and, to a considerable degree, to provide catalysts of constructive social change...
...Saxbe spent $750,000 in his campaign (check the official records or show me better proof), not the two million which Mr. Geoghegan dwelled upon and Mr. Gilligan somehow "knew" we "had" six months before election day. (As proof of our poverty: over 80 per cent of the paid campaign staff, including myself, received no salaries after the month of August.) Mr. Gilligan spent...
...short, it does no discredit to Mr. Gilligan to recognize that the man who defeated him was and is an outstanding liberal and intellectual-- who happens to be a Republican. Indeed. Mr. Geoghegan should be glad that his next-door neighbor was defeated by a better man. Terry A. Barnett '67 2L Saxbe Research Director President, Ripon Society