Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, we believe that serious discussion and criticism are in order, but that they require a better understanding of the nature of university teaching and research and a fuller appreciation of the real and more subtle problems posed by the need for outside support. Mr. Glassman concludes his May 13 article with the judgement that driving the federal government from the university "cannot be bad". We believe that the elimination of federal funds would be tragic. Paul C. Martin Professor of Physics Roy J. Glauber Professor of Physics Raymond Siever Professor of Geology Roy G. Gordon Assistant Professor of Chemistry...
...teases his listeners as he teased the readers of his novels: "This speech was conceived in Maryland, U.S.A., on the Atlantic coast. You may ask: Didn't this man have anything better to do amid dunes, billboards and deserted beach hotels than to meditate on conditions in West Germany? Why didn't he stick to his past and spend his time thinking up the usual stories?" But once he has justified his position on the platform, Grass moves on to serious and substantial criticism of German society and politics. He wants"Splinter Parties," those with less than five per cent...
UNTIL I FOUND a copy of Three Thirty sitting in the CRIMSON newsroom last week, I thought it might be only nostalgia or naivete that made me think that Harvard yearbooks were once much better-like in my freshman year. But there it was-dark red with black lettering on the cover just like this year's-an honest-to-God book worth saving, with more than a dozen Faculty profiles, good features on Harvard music and the Design School, and a long anthology of the best writing from undergraduate publications. Harvard would never buy the intensely orderly...
...Student Activism at Harvard" begins with the sentence, "A profound questioning of the role of the University in society and a re-evaluation of what it means to be a student within the university have engendered an unprecendented surge of student activity at Harvard." And it gets no better...
...operated on the theory that they should persuade potential consumers, not inform potential voters. "When television first appeared, it had the greatest potential of anything man had ever invented," Gilligan said. "The British were able to realize this [with the BBC] but we were not." Newspapers were not much better. Gilligan did not think that televised distortion of the news was more frequent or more harmful than selective exclusion of news by newspapers. Editors, he said, usually have no qualms about blacking out certain events or stories that offend their biases. He challenged his audience to count up the columns...