Word: intent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calkins' main intent, then, is to make the present system more efficient, without raising questions about its basic nature. Thus, better vocational high schools because only 30% of Cleveland's graduates go to college, without asking why this is so; thus opposition to the war is fine, and he would like to see it work, but his higher priority is in not changing any basic structures, and so he recommends another mass movement to end the war (McCarthy was fun, but what did it accomplish)?; for the ghettoes he recommends black capitalism (what's wrong with a black elite...
...committee came up with the idea of several weekends. The intent is to make each one more exciting than the previous one. The costs for participants is nearly zero as the committee intends to dig quite deeply into its funds...
...need not now go through another period of indecisive "interpretation" by negotiating committees. It was the intent of my resolution, of the seconding speeches, and, I believe, of the Schelling Amendment to phase out ROTC in its present traditional form, to leave in its place at most an undergraduate extracurricular group with none of the special privileges and facilities required by a regular ROTC operation. It was not the intent of the Faculty to create a "front" for ROTC, but rather to make possible some sort of bridge between students and various service training functions to be carried on outside...
...part, and here I can speak only, as one member of this Faculty. I would like to see a transition begin not only as soon as possible within legal restraints, but see it carried out as openly and candidly as possible. No purpose will be served by obscuring the intent of the Faculty vote by arcane interpretations of what are the "privileges and facilities" of ordinary extracurricular activities. The Department of Athletics and PBH are not models of what the Faculty had in mind. The first is a Department of Instruction--which ROTC is specifically not, the second...
...backing they need to end the University's conventional ties to ROTC and to find new ways of affirming Harvard's responsibility to the national defense more in keeping with our times. I cannot presume to guess what those ways will be, and I can only hope that the intent of the Faculty to limit ROTC to an ordinary extracurricular activity will be clearer by virtue of this letter. Jerome S. Bruner Professor of Psychology