Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What Bok seeks is "how to develop a sense of balance," to "struggle not to give up independence, pure learning and abstraction." This represents the same challenge faced by President Eliot of how to avoid choosing between the highest type of academic endeavor. Only now the challenge is "more subtle and pervasive," Bok said...
...money "makes the mare go," as L.B.J. used to say, and he piled up plenty of cash himself. So did millions of other people in the giddy inflation that took hold in the later Johnson years. In capitalist America, the accumulation of wealth has always been a well-respected endeavor, but now money-more and more money-dominates too much of the talk and the thought in the Capital...
...Mission: Impossible. The nation's largest conglomerate wanted to use some of its great financial power to prevent the freely elected but radically leftist President of a Latin American country from taking office. Moreover the company sought to merge with the Central Intelligence Agency in this endeavor...
...explained that the psychiatry and psychology divisions will endeavor to determine the relation between attempts and completions, how to find potential suicides, and what modes of intervention might be attempted to avert suicides...
...Students, dean of Harvard College, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and dean of the Graduate School reflects the confusion of having a faculty teaching both undergraduates and graduates. The principle of departmental organization breaks down at the undergraduate level. Certainly literary criticism is a human endeavor worth cultivating, and sociology an important area of intellectual enterprise. But to claim that the undergraduate's need for training in such methodologies justifies subjecting him or her to departmental discipline doesn't hold...