Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AAAAS today performs within these three broad functions. Hubert Sapp '67, outgoing President of the organization, feels that "because the Association, was, on its fact, contrary to established liberal tenets, the Administration and the Harvard community interpreted us as a step backward. But in the past two or three years. Afro has demonstrated the kind of contributions it can make, and that these functions could not have been performed if we did not exist specifically as an all-black organization." The point of these functions has been to get black students thinking about the problems of the black community...
...shift in tactics is an attempt to extend the organization's appeal to new constituencies beyond the campus. While SDS has always aimed at inspiring a "broad-based" movement, it is now consciously appealing to adults, particularly among both the middle and working classes, and planning to increase such activities in the future. In organizing these groups, SDS is endeavoring to develop an "ideology"--a more systematic theory of social change for the American power structure...
Activism spread beyond a small minority. On other campuses, the broad majority might still be silent, leading Clark Kerr to claim that a few noisy malcontents had exaggerated the dissatisfaction of this college generation. At Harvard, however, political and social activism--expressed in a variety of service in the slums as well as anti-war demonstrations in the Cambridge streets--became an important class-wide phenomenon. Though there were outstanding individuals, one of the things which impressed Dean Monro about his last senior class at Harvard was the "breadth of involvement...
Yale's Cal Hill, the only double winner, set a new meet and Eli mark in the triple jump at 56 ft. 1 1/2 in. In the broad jump, he leaped 24-83/4--not his greatest jump by any means, but good enough to win yesterday by a foot and a half...
...Broad jump -- Hill (Y) 24-8 3/4, Sharpe (O) 23-3 1/2, Galliers 22-8, Smith...