Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...However desirable a department of black studies might be in a culturally chauvinistic sense, it is hard to see why it should be given priority over training for the professions. While a course in Jewish history and culture might have been personally edifying, I fail to see how it would have equipped me to discharge my responsibilities as a psychologist. I have done my share of griping over the obduracy of professors and the vacuity of courses, but I never challenged the options of the faculty. Always in mind was the awareness that I was on campus by qualification...
...responsibility. "In my campaign for the presidency, I pledged to end this war in a way that would increase our chances to win a true and lasting peace in Viet Nam, in the Pacific and in the world," he said. "I am determined to keep that pledge. If I fail to do so, I expect the American people to hold me accountable for that failure...
Liberals, of course, expect that they will often fail, but also expect that their earnest efforts will be properly appreciated. They cheerfully acknowledge that people disagree with them but cannot believe that they are being laughed at. If Kunen's Srawberry Statement encourages a few liberals to reexamine their reflexive rhetoric, to wonder if they are thinking in terms as large as are the radicals they feel threatened by, then the book will in the end be good for some education, as well as some amusement...
Stephen E. Cotton, a member of the lrst-year student group that had demanded pass-fail grading, said last night, "It's clear the faculty realizes that this is a temporary solution...
...Congressional action, Scherle meant the type of bill proposed by Rep. William H. Harsha (R-O.). That bill, introduced on April 15, recommends a cut-off of federal funds to colleges which "fail to take corrective measures within a reasonable time" after experiencing campus disorders. The determination of just what those corrective measures are is left largely up to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare...