Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Divinity School, for example, seems headed this way. On December 15 its faculty unanimously passed a resolution supporting Divinity School draft resisters. It read in part: "We encourage members of our School community to join those who have pledged financial assistance to help defray the legal costs incurred by the resistance." The Faculty reportedly came close to pledging Divinity School money to this cause...
...demonstration can best be interpreted in terms of this inner conflict. Students were confronting the University, asking it to help them or to reject them: "We want you to help us, to protect us, to throw Dow out. But if you do not, we are willing to accept your rejection, your punishment," they were saying. But the University was again able to worm its way out of the problem with a traditional ploy: it neither accepted nor rejected...
Along with this, students have, as Pusey notes, become more socially conscious. They use their knowledge and position to help people before they get out of the monastery. If Kennan thinks students should not involve themselves in the world, he is the real Walter Mitty. The fact is that they are forced to involve themselves...
...nations that say they need economic help and the 11 nations able to give it will face each other for a month of discussions at the second United Nations Council on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The question they have to answer is whether the poor nations of the world are ever going to be able to catch up with the rich ones...
...Ecuador Volunteers cite the view that Peace Corps policy is motivated by the U.S. "world wide struggle against communism, not by a genuine desire to help poor nations" but they offer no evidence for the charge. This indictment amounts to a new claim of guilt by association. For all its faults the Peace Corps is the best thing that this nation is doing abroad, and to tar it with the brush of "arrogance" and "colonialism" merely because it is an agency of the U.S. government strikes me as both unsophisticated and dishonest. Efrem Sigel '64 Associate Managing Editor, 1964; Peace...