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...close of the meeting, Harold A. McDougall '67, president of CRCC, announced that his organization will take responsibility for providing information about summer projects planned organizations which endorse CRCC. CRCC is planning a series of symposiums, be held in the next few weeks, at which representatives from national and civil rights groups will discuss their projects, and inform students about how they may participate in them...
...Radcliffe Admissions office mailed 2193 letters yesterday, but only 346 began with the welcome words: "The Committee on Admissions is very pleased to inform...
...chastised, but more because it is unkind to call an overweight child "fatty" because he overeats to compensate for emotional problems. Fifteen thousand able-bodied students putting in an eight-hour day could raise a minimum of $120,000--a sum which, turned to the proper channels, could inform and educate hundreds of thousands of people. The fact that these people would rather take a Saturday bus ride to Washington--often with their dates, and march about with signs all day, ought to elicit more pity tha scorn from all those really interested in a better solution to the current...
...last week's teach-in. In a syndicated column datelined "Cambridge," which appeared yesterday in the Boston Globe under the headline "Harvard Teach-in Misguided," he labeled the participants "breast-beaters who had never been there [Viet Nam]" and chided them as Ivory Tower observers who "never bothered to inform themselves about grim little Ho Chi Minh's brilliant success as a cold-headed murder of his early resistance comrades." He concluded that "perhaps American progression [sic] needs to be returned to its former preoccupation with hard facts...
Perhaps Mr. Alsop could set American progressivism a better example. In only a few sentences he manages to grossly misrepresent the aims of the teach-in--to inform not denounce--and its effect--the presentation of an intelligent, knowledgeable, many-sided discussion by some of the areas most distinguished professors...