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...actions such as the above by the Faculty and Administration of Harvard College that seems out of step with the harshness with which the University dealt with others and myself. Not only does this make your admissions policy suspect, a policy with which I have had some sad first-hand knowledge as a teacher and one formerly interested in trying to get good students to go to Harvard, but so is the College's lack of understanding of students once admitted...
Lipset proposes the establishment of a school of social science in Washington--not only so the professors can study Washington policy-making first-hand but also so the professors can influence the policy-makers first hand. Lipset believes that academic people and government people should develop close personal relationships. He says that professors do not understand political decisions because they are too far away from them: "Much of the academic community is simply in the dark about the reasons for policy that they disagree with Hence, the American academic community feels much more outside of government then do comparable communities...
...Review will begin gathering first-hand detailed information from people who witnessed the events between 4 and 6:30 a.m. Thursday morning at University Hall...
...with me that it was "a very constructive occasion." Since it was to be a kind of family occasion, involving some frank shop-talk and possible personalities, your reporter was asked to leave. I now regret that we did not ask him to stay, because I feel sure that first-hand observation would have given him a more harmonious picture...
...Lack of first-hand knowledge of these organizations makes it difficult for us to do more than suggest how new members might be selected. The Law Review might choose all new members by means of a writing competition. (The Yale Law Journal now recruits all members by means of a writing competition, in which students not elected receive course credit for their work.) The Review might also consider having more than one competition a year, and expanding the number of members it elects...