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Foundation Director S. Allen Counter, the driving force behind the agency last year, is right to try to elicit increased student leadership and to fight separatism. His political and cultural programs also sound promising. Students, majority and minority, should lend their support to the Foundation and participate in its activities. And Counter, for his part, should try to be more open than last year about the agency's plans for easing campus racial tension...
...ridiculous and does little to characterize a hero who relies on frequent drunken debauches to reveal his emotional depth. The poor guy is clearly troubled, but the theatrical shorthand of empty, albeit exotic, liquor bottles and frequent comments about how lousy it is to be a killer do not elicit empathy...
Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 said this week that he was unaware of Counter's plans to reduce his activities with the Foundation Fox did, however endorse Counter's attempt to elicit increased student leadership...
...elaborate review system ensures that Harvard will not grant tenure to academics of less than spectacular status. Before a department votes to recommend a scholar for tenure, it must elicit rankings of the leading candidates for the post from a half dozen professors in the field of the proposed appointment. The dean's office requires a department to take these evaluations into account in making a tenure recommendation...
This apparent malaise pervades the China Butterfield visited. He sees it in the factories, where "malingering on the job has become endemic." And he sees it in a compulsory class on Marxism which he attended one day at Peking University: an embarrassed teacher is unable to elicit a response from her students on what are the basic principles of socialism. "China," Butterfield dryly notes, "has become an authoritarian country with an authority crisis...