Word: enrichments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pineapples are flourishing on the chilly mountain peaks of Tibet. Lush acreage has appeared in the desert of Mongolia. Red China has produced a miraculous substance that can enrich its soil and abolish hunger. To devise a way to steal the Chinese secret, Rus sian, American and British intelligence authorities confer. Their solution: send in Gregory Peck...
...strongly urge other departments to enrich their offerings in this field as well as to invite additional outside specialists so that by the time the class of 1972 graduates, Harvard will have provided them with a strong and relevant course of study. This goal will require the active effort and involvement of all concerned: students, faculty, and administration...
...large-scale organization tends to smother individuality. But today's young person doesn't give due weight to the fact that large-scale organization, properly designed, can also benefit the individual, enrich his life, increase his choices. Everyone lampoons modern technological society, but no one is prepared to give up his refrigerator. Everyone condemns bigness, but there is no movement of population toward the unspoiled, lonely places of the continent. We must identify those features of modern organization that strengthen the individual and those that diminish him. Given such analysis, we can design institutions that would strengthen...
Ostensibly, the problem was cash. The Major League Baseball Players' Association, which speaks for all the athletes through elected player representatives from each team, wants the club owners to enrich its pension fund with $6,500,000 for three years; the owners are offering $5,300,000. Yet as the infighting got nastier, it seemed to turn into a classic test of strength. On one side, an owner threatened: "If we can't use major-leaguers, we'll fill up our rosters with minor-leaguers." On the other, Marvin Miller, the $55,000-a-year negotiator...
...instance, there is much that might be done to enrich the opportunities available through the less formal academic activities of the crucial freshman year. The reading lists provided freshman as the basis for discussion groups during "orientation week" should provide black students greater opportunity to elect to read and discuss books that bear more directly on areas in which they are interested. A special effort should also be made to enrich the Freshman Seminar offerings. There is precedent for these seminars being taught by instructors with no other Harvard teaching appointment, and we recommend that some Freshman Seminars be taught...