Word: establish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unable to establish a mental understanding or even an emotional understanding of the wind. Because it keeps coming stronger and stronger, it lifts your lighter limbs like your legs, and it keeps changing directions because you are rotating in a movement you are still unaware of. The terrific wind separates you completely from your hands and feet. You experience the shoulders and thighs nearest you; but the outer limbs are lost to the environment...
...emotional level, you are trying to stand up. You really want to be able to say something to yourself. You want to be able to tell yourself you know something, to establish that the dropping feeling in your bowels means this-and-that in relation to your body's existence in this environment as a whole...
...invite a member of the Military Services to give a course on military or foreign policy. But in the case of the ROTC programs, Harvard is not inviting an individual whom it feels is an expert on military history and policy, but rather is inviting the Defense Department to establish Departments of Military Science, Naval Science, and Aerospace Studies and to staff them with military personnel who are to serve a tour of duty for the express purpose of training future officers...
...seems obvious that Harvard never meant to and never did establish the Departments of Military Science, Naval Science, and Aerospace Studies with the full privileges of Academic Departments. All candidates for the A.B. degree must complete at least 13 1/2 non-ROTC courses, all Faculty appointments for ROTC personnel are non-tenured, and ROTC Departments may not recommend degrees. Further, it seems that the ROTC Units view themselves as ROTC Units, not as Harvard Departments.. Harvard has never entrusted the ROTC Units with the full privileges of an Academic Department, nor should it. An externally controlled body which pursues...
...Harvard is to establish each ROTC Unit as an academic and administrative Department...