Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editorializing that Hoving is responsible for "Irrelevancy at the Museum," the New York Times is choosing comfort and convenience over difficult self-assessment. Their warning of January 22nd--that "the politicalization of art and all other forms of culture is a favorite device of dictatorship"--is ridiculously severe. Better they should deplore the pressures which led several New York City councilmen to threaten the end of the city's three-million-dollar allocation to the museum if the show's catalogue weren't withdrawn--as it now has been...
What the black student wants is an opportunity to study the black experience and to employ the intellectual resources of Harvard in seeking solutions to the problems of the black community--so that he will be better prepared to assist the community in solving these problems. Such educational opportunities at Harvard would help the black student to justify his separation from the larger black community--and would attest that the separation was by no means radical or permanent...
...have any other effect than the improvement of the quality of student life generally at Harvard. We have asked for changes that will surely alter the quality of life at this institution, but like the students, we have aimed at a life that is not different merely, but better and richer...
Wilson said that the CEP's plan--forcing ROTC courses to reapply for credit rather than flatly denying credit as SFAC asks--is "a better way, more consistent with Faculty principles, of achieving essentially the same goal as the other proposal...
...Better, in my judgment, is an action by the faculty to course a thorough reappraisal of the ROTC curricula, within the framework of flexibility available to each service, that would make the ROTC courses of acceptable quality." (memorandum...