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...What is most tragic about Vietnam is he decade of wasted opportunity that brought us to our present plight," Merle Fainsod, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, told members of Radcliffe's graduating class in his Baccalaureate address yesterday. "We have supported a succession of unpopular military regimes in South Vietnam because they were opposed to the Communists; we have only fitfully and sporadically addressed ourselves to the social grievances which movements like the Viet Cong to bring peasants and others to their cause," he said...
...Fainsod, a distinguished Russian scholar and an authority on the Soviet political system, stressed the inadequacy of military force in dealing with the current situation in South Vietnam. "Unless ... we stand for meaningful programs of improvement in village welfare, our future welfare, our future in what the Chinese Communists call the countryside of the world may turn out to be dark indeed," he predicted...
Radcliffe seniors will attend a Baccalaureate service at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church. Merle Fainsod, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, will deliver the Baccalaureate address...
There are many more examples than these. Jack Bass and Bob Maynard, quoted in Ardery's article, can speak for themselves. Here, however, it must be noted that Jack also included a course in American poetry in his first term (and what direct relevance Merle Fainsod's course has to covering the South Carolina political scene is beyond me). And Bob took course in fine arts and music. In fact, in leaving out these two courses from Maynard's list, Ardery seemed to be setting him up as the specialist he was obviously not designed to represent in the article...
...enrolled in McCloskey's course and wrote his paper on James F. Byrnes, former Supreme Court Justice from South Carolina. He audited Fainsod's course and Galbraith's Economics 169. "Galbraith interests me because many of the problems in underdeveloped countries are the same ones we have in South Carolina," he said...