Word: content
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breach of manners," but might jeopardize their careers; thus confine themselves to "genteel banter." Historian Staughton Lynd, who has carried his beliefs into angry dissent from the Viet Nam war, criticizes historians who limit themselves to defining and analyzing forces in society. He asks acidly: "Should we be content with measuring the dimension of our prison instead of chipping, however inadequately, against the bars...
...officers learn." The Dean was referring specifically to administrative difficulties, e.g., that Social Sciences 112 is not taught every year, and his statement does not at all belie that he or the members of the CEP share the Crimson's belief that the Navy would like to change the content of those professors' courses, or that the Navy doesn't want its students to learn what they have to teach. The Navy never asked to change the courses; what it did ask was permission to require its students to take one of the courses...
Proof of Utopia. Center is not content to be merely topical, but offers some intriguing glimpses into past and future. In the current issue, Trappist Monk Thomas Merton, author of The Seven Storey Mountain, writes about an early Mesoamerican civilization that survived from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 900 without a single war. So attuned to their environment were its members, so at peace with themselves, that they simply felt no need to fight, nor their neighbors to fight with them. Here, says Merton, was a Utopian existence that was not mere fantasy...
...units on over 300 college campuses--is becoming a recruiting organization through which the armed services can compete with the corporations for educated manpower. While many educators are not wholly satisfied with an arrangement that includes full professorships for military personnel on their campuses, centralized military control over the content of ROTC courses, and academic credit for such activities as weekly marching drills, there is every prospect that ROTC in the nation's colleges is here to stay...
...proposal, which will be reconsidered at the Council's next meeting on March 26, would have asked the University to replace its present criterion of "balance" and allow non-commercial TV and radio to cover speeches, debates, public meetings and the like "without discrimination on any ground of political content...