Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter K. Gunness '57, assistant director of Admissions and Freshman scholarships, has been appointed director of the College's Financial Aid Office. He succeeds Wallace McDonald, President Pusey chose last month to coordinate the University's program for research in international affairs...
...committee chose to deal with the third problem--that of the under-representation of certain areas of study--as an organizational question. Making the behavioral sciences a separate category was an attempt to induce behaviorists to offer courses, and the Faculty turned this down...
...1920s, the era of Babbitt and Harding, U.S. intellectuals felt themselves rejected and ridiculed by the business civilization. Instead of fighting to improve it, they chose exile in Europe, or that domestic exile which is known as "alienation." In the 1930s, after business had bungled the job of running the country, the intellectuals held a large share of power in the New Deal-and then it was the businessman's turn to feel rejected and ridiculed by "the professors in Washington." By 1953, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. announced that "anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman...
...months later, totally broke, he hitchhiked home, worked on a road gang under a searing sun for a dollar a day. His mother kept drumming college into his head, and Lyndon finally conceded that "I'd rather use my head than my back to earn a living." He chose Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos because "it was nearest my home, I could get in, and it was most economical...
...fight to make the Rules Committee more responsive to the leadership, for example, Rayburn declined the best method for seemingly insubstantial reasons. A purge of Colmer from the Rules Committee for not supporting the party ticket in 1960 could have been quite easily accomplished in party caucus. Rayburn chose instead to enlarge the Committee, a move which required vote of the full House--including Republicans--and therefore brought on a long, bitter fight, apparently because of sentiment (purges aren't nice), and some kind of scruple of Rayburn's about the precedent set when Powell was not purged...