Word: government
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Fortunately or unfortunately, human beings, perhaps especially human beings in universities, do not live together in strict accord with general principles. Instead they work out, from case to case, a set of often unspoken agreements and working rules to govern their own behavior and settle conflicts. This process began at Harvard as early as the McNamara episode. Whether it can continue is uncertain because the moral conflict is indeed an intense one. There are, I suggest, two closely related prerequisites for any accommodation that may still make possible serious intellectual work. One would be a shift in emphasis among...
Russian Scrabble. The meal ends, always the same way. Nabokov empties his pockets of silver, apparently at random. Alone of the regulars, he tips at each meal. "You don't know the laws that govern my life," he sighs humbly, looking heavenward. Now there is time for more serious talk, but Nabokov is reluctant to discuss The Novel...
...even his friends have any clear idea how Chichester-Clark intends to govern. His one known political formulation is that he supports the "one man, one vote" demand of the Catholic opposition-but "not at the present time...
...university and to prescribe cures for the institution's ills. To foment the crisis, Students for a Democratic Society had raised two issues: ROTC and university expansion. These were the specific topics of debate. Underlying these themes, though, was the larger question of how the university should be governed-and who should govern...
...educators feared that "if universities will not govern themselves they will be governed by others." The current wave of student unrest, unless solved by the schools, could lead to backlash legislation that would be harmful to the universities. Thus the Council urged its member institutions to carry on with curriculum reform and develop a more open pattern of governance, and to create realistic disciplinary codes in cooperation with students and faculty. Police action may sometimes be necessary, the report noted, but it is better that universities "deal with disruptive situations" before it becomes necessary to bring in the forces...