Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasons that the university has gotten out of hand are not only financial. The university is expected to do things now, to perform services for society directly with its resources. To a great extent, that is how the university will directly serve the needs of society--the needs as the government sees them. The problem with the new university is that it has become relevant; it is doing things that it has not been equipped to do. The new function of service--no matter how much men like Pusey believe it is the modern thing to be doing--is tearing...
...suppose that if I had rolled a live hand grenade into your office I would have been forgiven because I was protesting against the refurbishment of Memorial Hall. It is 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...
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...
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Harvard no longer has the pressure of preserving a six-year win streak, and has everything to gain by beating Penn in the Sprints. Penn, on the other hand, must resist the over-confidence that comes with being rated Number...