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...members of this committee become "paper liberals", if we do not discern the crucial point of our existence, we will be ineffective as in the past. Harvard still owns stock in Gulf, Gulf is still in Angola, and instead of the issues being clear-cut, Gulf is changing some of its methods so it is more difficult to see its exploitation in Africa and other parts of the world. I do not expect any miracles: to change Harvard so that not even we could change it from the course we wish to see it on if we should...
LAST SPRING Harvard stumbled through a mini-crisis of authority: administrators and committee members slowed the pace of their work, waiting to discern which way the soon-to-be-appointed dean of the Faculty would lead them. The delay grew longer and longer, and President Bok's deadline for appointing John T. Dunlop's successor passed by. Some gave up and delivered their proposals into the hands of the acting Faculty deans, Franklin L. Ford and Harvey Brooks. But others waited more patiently...
Organized impeachment moves under way in New York City, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have met with indifferent success. Amid the confusion and dismay, there are a few who discern a silver lining: "No matter how this turns out, the result will be favorable," says Alan K. Campbell, dean of the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. "There are signs that the President is adjusting to the idea that a landslide victory doesn't mean a man can do as he wishes. The country is getting a good cleansing, and so is the President...
...first one far enough removed from the time of creation to appreciate the Victorian age as an historical epoch. For our parents, Victorianism was a recent experience; though not devoid of meaning, they were too close to judge it objectively. The passing of time has made it easier to discern the stronger and weaker elements of the style...
While I often discern in your pages good reasons for my antipathy to Harvard, I am also grateful for the faithfulness with which you convey a sense of the University in the diversity of its surface....It is good at times to get an intimate look at fashion in the making, even when fashion has no appeal. --Robert S. Bart in a letter to the editor...