Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without swinging too far either way--toward a totally new custodial relationship or toward a complete break in relations--there are intermediate positions that can be taken now to help solve the crisis. The most important would be to respect the authority of the new Student-Faculty Advisory Committee and enact any of its recommendations to bar recruiters...
Thirty persons worked with Maher and Grizzard in the fall. Twenty were students. "Students are a help getting something started but for sustained work you need day-to-day presence," says Grizzard. For these reasons, according to Grizzard, it is better for students to confine their anti-draft work to the campus...
...promise of a more productive relationship between Cambridge schools and the city's universities was jolted last Tuesday night. The school committee voted down a motion to give $6000 to a panel of five area educators, who were to help in the search for a new Cambridge superintendent of schools. And veteran Committeeman James Fitzgerald appears to have the votes to dissolve the now-penniless panel of advisors before it has a chance to advise...
...plan to draw in expert help for a national talent search was the frankly apolitical motion of Independent George Olesen, a parting gesture toward progress as he left public life. Politics is back now. And beyond the immediate danger that Cambridge will not even consider hiring a superintendent from outside its ingrown system is the deeper threat that the Independents will take the easy course of becoming a mechanically anti-intellectual, regressive majority...
...local draft board--the heart of the system--exists to provide the number of young and healthy American males the Department of Defense has deemed necessary to help continue the safe existence of our country...