Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard, which some-what paradoxically gives its students more freedom and less participation on policy-making committees than would be their lot at most public institutions. Harvard's governmental structure makes it pointless for students to seek empty representation on the Board of Overseers; instead they could better exert their energies towards matters on which their opinions really do make a difference...
...only violent action changes things. Ranum says that Sorel is dead. He gets on the phone to Truman and offers us trial by a tripartite committee if we'll leave. We discuss it and vote no. Enter Mark Rudd, through the window. He says that 27 people can't exert any pressure, and the best thing we could do is leave and join a big sit-in in front of Hamilton. We say no, we're not leaving until the gym, IDA, and amnesty demands are met. Rudd goes out and comes back and asks us to leave again...
...links. In a document circulated among faculty last week, MAT's asked for compulsory student work with educational self-help groups in Roxbury, and also suggested that community leaders attend courses at Harvard and discussion groups with MAT's. Eventually, Roxbury leaders would become full faculty members and, hopefully, exert some influence on the course of Ed School urban activities...
...thought GSA ought to exert more influence on University policies," Gardner said...
...Italy's economy has expanded steadily; last year it reached a growth rate of 5.9%. Still, there are potential problems. For one thing, Italian labor is being lured to other countries, creating shortages at home that will tend to push up wages. Rising private consumption is expected to exert a similar pressure on prices. And so far, at least, the government, which faces an election late this year, has shown little desire to curb its own spending or that of the electorate...