Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given Harvard's traditional indifference to student opinion, members defend the assembly, noting that the assembly's survival posed the main challenge over the past year. Winthrop says he believes the assembly's major success this year was "finding its niche" in the University and "proving it's here to stay." But both Winthrop and Maxine S. Pfeffer '81, current chairman of the assembly, point to administrative resistance to student opinion as one stumbling block to effective student government at Harvard...
...other city planners, including nearly all members of Harvard's department, defend Harvard's program as innovative and better-suited to the current job market. In a letter to The Crimson, 20 department members state that the history of planning is one of resistance to change. "The true issue is whether universities can develop innovative curricula without being harassed by narrow traditional interests within a profession," the letter said...
...early 50s, the Cold War dominated our consciousness. It was a time of distrust of social idealism that could be interpreted as being "soft on communism." The University had to defend its essential function of free inquiry, exploration of truth against those who brandished bureaucratic axes under the banner of patriotism. The University bent, but did not break, thanks to leadership from Paul Buck, the Provost, and Nathan M. Pusey '28, who became president. Buck called me into his office in 1953 when the issue was firing a tenured professor for his communist affiliation. "Stay here until I come back...
...zigzags have brought Energy Secretary James Schlesinger under such heavy fire that White House advisers urged Carter either to fire him or to defend him publicly. Carter chose the second course; Press Secretary Jody Powell said last week that Schlesinger had been "as effective as anyone can be," given the situation." Schlesinger actually offered his resignation to Carter in April, but now he regards himself as the messenger despised because he brings bad news. He is determined to stay on. But Schlesinger is so unpopular in Congress, one DOE official confesses, that "just saying we favor something can create votes...
...least the leader of a so-called independent Bantustan in South Africa can fire his own police chief." The advantage of the new system to the whites, he contends, is that when the Rhodesian army commits its next atrocity against African villagers, it will have "a black mouth to defend...