Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...social institutions at Harvard are themselves unique. Here, there are no fraternities to coordinate individual activities. The houses plan separate small weekends, but none of these approaches the large financial scale of the freshman effort. And the large weekend does have its advantages. First, hundreds of people from a basically homogeneous group all bent on having fun are, of themselves, bound to create an experience which no committee can plan fully. It is a unity not unlike that generated by a football game or a freshman riot. Second, Jubilee is a great release from the pressures of the freshman year...
THERE ARE SEVERAL reasons why an effort to abolish the grading system should begin with an exam boycott. The first is that exams constitute the individual's most abject and intense subjection to the academic system. Exams are the most personally humiliating and meaningless situations that the academic system imposes on the individual student. They are also the point in the system where the dichotomy between learning and academic structure becomes most obvious: the very fact that an exam in English is conducted exactly like an exam in Geology is enough to make clear to many students the fact that...
...another sense the disturbances at Harvard had deeper and more serious causes than those revealed in the escalation of tactics by both sides. Thus, the senior circular, while it spent most of its effort identifying the faults of President Quincy, eventually came to the short but essential conclusion: "Perhaps the circumstances which we have revealed have been only the immediate occasion of the recent disturbances. The causes have been long in operation...
Only the report which was submitted to the Governing Boards by former President John Quincy Adams made any effort to discover any cause for the events. Marking the extreme nature of the disturbances at Harvard, and recalling no previous such incident at the College, Adams finally connected a cause to these unusual events. Said Adams, drawing up all the venom he had for Andrew Jackson who had defeated and slurred him six years before, and then been given a Harvard degree, "the temper of the age" has affected students to consider themselves "in a standing rather of equality than...
...industry's rather elaborate public relations effort has been something less than smooth. Manhattan's Hill & Knowlton, the world's largest public relations firm, had been tending the industry's image for 15 years, but it quit a few months ago in disagreement over fundamental tactics. Hill & Knowlton had engineered the defensive, low-profile approach, under which the industry minimized its public involvement in the health controversy. That put the firm at odds with some industry chiefs, who thought that it was time for a more aggressive approach in promoting the case for cigarettes...