Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undoubtedly the most thrilling aspect of the archives are the documents which Trotsky has written and then revised. When he wanted to insert an extra paragraph into an article or chapter, he would type it out on a separate piece of paper and the paste it on to the edge of the original. This appendage could then be folded over to leave the document in its original size. In many cases the urge to make additional points led him to add appendage to appendage until a document, which can be folded down to a convenient eight inches by ten inches...
...Benjamin Tappan, Ohio Democrat, who in 1844 smuggled to the old New York Evening Post a copy of the treaty of annexation with the Republic of Texas while the document was still considered confidential...
...impartial observer who followed the hearings says, however, that the Harvard statement was more a pro forma gesture rather than document of intent. He feels certain from observing the hearings that it is Harvard's intention to bargain with the union that truly represents the BGMA workers...
After a few quiet weeks, two second-year students decided to prod the committee into action. They wrote an open letter, invaluable as a well-reasoned document of student concern, outlining the areas in in which reforms were needed. It questioned the rigid numerical grading and ranking system, according to which the student's access to important "Honorary" extra-curricular activities, and possibly his future career plans, were determined. Criticism extended to the Honoraries themselves and suggested that many positions be opened up to free competition and that the School provide more activities and practical internship experiences...
...first-year students in Economics also began in March of this year to articulate the unhappiness and grumblings registered by individuals. After several weeks of discussion among themselves, the group presented a memorandum of complaints to the faculty which they felt represented half of the first-year class. The document criticized the overemphasis on rote theorems and proofs in two basic courses, complained that the faculty was inacessible and overly concerned with maintaining its research empire, and put in a plea for a more critical approach to the teaching of economics which might avoid blind acceptance of models and economic...