Word: finding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleased to find that both the order, number, and I believe substance of the proposals was eventually changed before presentation, I assume by the chairman, Lance C. Buhl. Nevertheless, my speech as a prime mover was devoted mostly to urging the body "to withhold [their] votes until a proposal [they] truly agreed with is reached...
RENE DAUMAL--Who wrote a beautiful little known book called Mount Analogue. The book--unfinished at Daumal's death--describes the quest to find the mountain that connects Earth and Sky, that is, to know God. So wonderfully is the allegory worked into the story that it is difficult to find a passage that will give you a sense of the book. But here is a little poem that Daumal wrote in a letter to his wife...
...those guys who knocks confusion. I find it very hard to imagine "objective referents" that are good enough to have around for more than a few weeks anyway. Still, this essay is mainly an explanation of things, and please forgive...
...given week, but each week we have to choose a few very important things to concentrate on. The sit-in helped everyone choose ROTC, expansion, restructuring and so on for this week. Again, it is a case of What and not why. Reasons are not hard to find for anything; as long as you can keep most men thinking about something long enough, their thoughts will come around to your point of view. This is what has happened to the Harvard faculty. It is like a newspaper: what is most influential is not what a newspaper says on its editorial...
Harvard can lead the nation, as it has in the past. The near unanimous vote of the Faculty on Thursday should give the President and Fellows the backing they need to end the University's conventional ties to ROTC and to find new ways of affirming Harvard's responsibility to the national defense more in keeping with our times. I cannot presume to guess what those ways will be, and I can only hope that the intent of the Faculty to limit ROTC to an ordinary extracurricular activity will be clearer by virtue of this letter. Jerome S. Bruner Professor...