Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diving coach John Walker was "generally pleased with Schramm and Greacen's early-season performances," citing the fact that the duo barely missed NCAA qualifying standards in the one-meter event...
Should the University honor such a man by dedicating a library of public affairs to him? Dean Allison,k when pressed by the Kennedy School Black Students Caucus, admitted that there is in fact no contract requiring the naming of the library after Engelhard. If so, why not change the name? Must we seek funds from the honor every wealthy donor, no matter how immoral their source of wealth? Should we dedicate a library to a profiteer of slave labor? Are there simply no limits to such expediency? Should not the Harvard Corporation take heed of the words...
...investigation of the claims against Charles Engelhard reveals that he is more of a tool than a symbol. In fact, George Croft of The Boston Globe (Oct. 25, 1978, page 70) reports that Charles Engelhard was actually a liberal Democrat who was also a liberal on apartheid! Mr. Croft adds that Mr. Engelhard was a close friend of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and served as a personal representative of the White House at the coronation of Pope Paul VI and at the Independence Day celebrations in two Africa countries: Gabon and Zambia. Mr. Croft also quoted from a speech Engelhard...
...evaluating different meal plans, however, it is important to keep in mind that the price of current meal contracts already takes into account the fact that most students eat only 14 meals per week. If all students ate the 21 allowable meals, the amount of food consumed would necessarily rise, and board contracts would be substantially higher than they...
...contending that Mead interprets too freely, critics ignore the fact that anthropology can never be a science. Mead's conclusions can stand because anthropological interpretations are always theoretical. No experiments can prove them right or wrong, since observed systems and institutions can easily be distorted to fit any proposed paradigm. Nor does anthropology deal with predictable data because man is an essentially is an unpredictable organism. Finally, anthropology isn't objective. It involves an observer interacting directly with other humans. Try as the anthropologist might to analyze and objectify what he sees, some amount of subjectivity is bound to seep...