Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been in frequent touch with North Vietnamese officials and could be reached at any time. So, too, could embassy personnel in Moscow, who also have had dealings with the North Vietnamese. Chester Bowles's visit to Pnompenh this week gives the North another opportunity for a high-level contact. If Hanoi does not want to confer directly with Washington, President Johnson has made it clear that he would favor informal talks between the N.L.F. and South Viet Nam. "The war can be stopped in a matter of days," Johnson has said-if talks start in earnest...
...Gilmore noted in accepting the Coif Award, "the distinguishing mark of our profession is its essential loneliness. We are like spies in an alien land, cut off from any contact with headquarters, with no way of ever finding out whether the intelligence which we diligently collect and relay is what is required of us or is even relevant." Still, he added, "if you can stand the loneliness, it's a good life. But it is heartwarming, I must confess, once in a while to come in out of the cold...
...social development, and returning to his teaching job. Then Pakistan invited him to take on a full-time advisory post, and in 1956 he left England, joining a Harvard advisory group helping the Pakistan Planning Commission formulate Pakistan's five year development plans. The new job--and his intimate contact with "the appalling suffering of people" in underdeveloped countries -- opened Curle's eyes. "When I got to Pakistan, I found this was quite a different matter [from writing a report] ... I realized the real task was in the getting the report implemented...
Harvard administrators claim that students are listened to and have influence already: "Any good idea will be approved, no matter if it comes from the students, the faculty or Hayes-Bickford." But even communication between students and faculty--the basis of any meaningful contact--is haphazard if not non-existent. Some examples of this occurred this fall. The Committee on the Houses (COH) relied on the CRIMSON to communicate to the Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC) its decision regarding the HUC's parietals proposal and the HUC's request to meet with the COH. In fact, the official spokesman for this...
There probably is a difference in quality of reasoning since faculty members have had more experience than students. However, the very fact that these people are no longer students seriously limits their perspective. It is students who are in direct contact with the pressures (and the immediate effects of these pressures) of the educational process. The "shortrun" perspective, which many people bemoan as limiting, is a necessary and important part of any complete analysis. It is not included now, and only students can supply it. Thus, the difference in competence is compensated for by the potential student contribution...