Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concentrating on the University is a good idea. But it seems that the best way to approach University involvement in the war is by attacking President Pusey's concept of Harvard as an institution. Pusey has said that as an institution Harvard should not try to effect social change. Its job is only to produce individuals who will effect social change. This is the basis for the myth of University neutrality...
...John Kenneth Galbraith [Feb. 16] is like all intellectuals: he cannot appreciate the idea that the average human being can manage his own life successfully. He has no faith in the people. Men's lives have to be regulated and controlled by the likes of Galbraith. History records that every demagogue had a plan of social improvement, and then the "ball and chain...
...more cautious elements, which began even before Ritter's death. In 1965, for example, a group of 30 priests and laymen drew up a sweeping reform program, including the creation of an archdiocesan synod to extend the spirit of the Second Vatican Council. Although sympathetic to the idea, Ritter felt that the reforming priests were going too far, eventually transferred some of them to obscure posts in the see. Apparently uninterested in taking on so demanding and troublesome an assignment, at least two bishops are reported to have turned down the St. Louis archbishopric before Carberry said...
Only Kirkland House--which had 11 seniors applying to move off--was able to allow many juniors to move off. Arthur Smithies, Master of Kirkland House, said he had "no idea at all" why so few seniors applied, but said "I hope it's because it's a nice place to live in here...
Aware of these trends, Abrams would like to implement "the old coalition idea of bringing together all Leftist factions at Harvard to establish a mass base needed for any social change. SDS, YPSL, Campus Americans for Democratic Action, and those active in the McCarthy campaign are all doing some things inherent in the Young Dems' policy, and the duplication among them is wasteful. We ought to be willing to work together," he said...