Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notes for the Times Literary Supplement, plus four illustrations photographed from the text. Of 57 sheets in the original Waste Land, 42 were unused; it is impossible at this stage to assess how much Ole Ez (as Pound liked to sign himself to friends) cut out, and to what extent Eliot was his own critic. But it is clear that a unique collaboration was involved in the birth of a masterpiece, and the honorary midwife deserves all credit for so splendid an outcome of a long and difficult labor...
...past the HUC has existed on a single issue: parietals. The group's switch to a more idealistic question--ROTC, this semester-- is the best example of its current renaissance. Just as many Harvard students have, to some extent, left their famous apathy behind in search of seeking peace of mind in an unjust world, so HUC members have changed their focus from an issue of personal freedom to one of more abstract social morality...
...DIFFICULT to determine what extent credit for ROTC courses is an inducement to take ROTC programs, although the inducement does seem less than has been claimed. ROTC programs should not be made appealing at the sacrifice of essential principles of the liberal arts institution, especially when the basis of their appeal is unclear in the first place. Colonel Pell is concerned about a potential "disservice to the maintenance of the national defense establishment, as now constituted." We contend that any aspect of the status of ROTC at Harvard which is a disservice to the principles of the liberal arts institution...
...turn out quite that way- and an even greater surprise was the extent to which the vote generally followed more traditional party lines. Instead of the convulsive upheaval that many had foreseen, the election was unpredictably normal in several important respects. Up to a point, the voting patterns followed those of 1960; the Democrats drew their strength largely from the big industrial states of the Northeast, plus Michigan, West Virginia, Minnesota and Texas. Richard Nixon, as he had eight years ago, attracted the Republican faithful of the suburbs. He carried virtually the same Midwestern states that he had won against...
...Professor Rosovsky's phrase, "a response to an emergency." And the limited but emotional war waged against it these past few weeks is perhaps important only to the extent that it affects the future of black-experience courses at Harvard...