Word: havens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usually-reliable sources in New Haven reported that Dowling, who has never played in a losing game and in only one tie, said "Gee, that's swell" on hearing of the award...
...regarding student seating. For the first hour of the debate between the HUC and COH, the Masters offered a barrage of reasons for the impossibility of such an innovation. Finally, Master Zeph Stewart confronted the Committee with what he considered to be the real reason for their opposition. "We haven't given any good reasons for not letting students on," Stewart said. "In fact, there is no philosophical reason why they shouldn't sit on the Committee. The problem is simply one of ages. We would feel stupid if they were to attend our meetings on a regular basis...
...directs itself to the wrong problems, so do plans for revolution. "It's not capitalism that's at fault," says Goodwin, "but systematization. It's not the robber baron who's the problem today but the Harvard Business School, organizing for safety....The question of revolution becomes irrelevant. You haven't got the troops. Politics is the only course with any chance of success...
...reform to local and community groups. Aggrieved individuals can more easily approach a local agency governing education, poverty, or law enforcement. More important, an agency with first-hand knowledge of a city can deal more efficiently and wisely with its problems than can lockstep reform from Washington. New Haven's enlightened urban renewal, for example, has been slowed down by the legislative morass of Federal aid programs. Goodwin wants to establish minimum Federal standards to prevent abuse, but then, give money to the cities and let them work...
...Harvard can lay claim to more than a draw. All save the most fearless of its gambling partisans won their bets, and all save the most underhanded of the nation's newspapers (one thinks of the Yale Daily News) will surely see fit to play Cambridge well over New Haven in the headlines...