Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the other problems the committee will confront will be tougher to deal with, since they concern the premises of education, not administration. But Clark Byse, the committee's forthright and open-minded chairman, has encouraged his group to be responsive to the students-at-large, to meet objections openly, and give the Law School's students a sense of influence on their education which has heretofore been denied them...
...Institute, however, this seems to avoid a central issue. A substantial portion of the Harvard community simply desires to confront policy-oriented problems. Many feel that the intellectual challenge of confronting issues in this realm is every bit as stimulating as devoting time to pure scholarship. Besides, there are few, if any, members of the Institute who plan to divorce themselves from pure scholarship--they merely want to vary their activities to achieve the maximum intellectual satisfaction...
...this vein. Last summer two members of the Economics Department were investigating the problem that would arise when the cost of living rose in 1967 with relation to the maintenance of the now-defunct guideposts. It wasn't really a long-range problem like ones the Institute wants to confront. But the point of the story, which Neustadt tells with great relish, is "that Washington--a couple of Cabinet officials, a White House aide, and a leading government economist--came to us. Harvard didn't have to go running to them." He adds, with a smile, "That...
...delegation, which included David Loud '68, one of SDS's co-chairman, and Ronald Yank, at Law School student and member of the executive committee, took the proposal to an SDS meeting the next day. The meeting didn't buy it. What SDS wants is to make Goldberg confront anti-war critics before the entire University community, members argued; it shouldn't settle for anything less than a full public meeting...
...This is not a problem of numbers so much as it is a problem of militancy. With the organization in its present loose form, the University may not be required to take its requests seriously. If the administration chose to politely ignore the Federation, the leadership would have to confront the tough question: what do we have to do to make them listen...