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...acquired and wisely used." Melvin Maddocks of the Christian Science Monitor echoes the confusions of the class of '71 when he writes, "I guess I'm not sure Harvard really exists. But then, I had the same problem when I was there." And, Jacob Leed, an English professor at Kent State University, simply writes...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Class of '46 Meets the Class of '46 | 6/16/1971 | See Source »

...commencement time a year ago, U.S. campuses throbbed with antiwar protests, the trauma of student killings at Kent State and Jackson State. In 1971, the year-end mood is dramatically different. While seniors chase scarce jobs, the campuses face a mounting financial crisis that may change the shape of U.S. higher education. At the same time, student activists are switching from radical protest to privatism, piety and politics. After examining such trends across the country, TIME National Education Correspondent Gregory H. Wierzynski sent this report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Austerity on the Campus | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

...Northcote Parkinson, though known for his prankish wit, was a naval historian before he began his researches into the modern disease that may properly be called "administrationitis."* His fully fabricated account of Hornblower's career, from an impecunious "boyhood in Kent to a peaceful death at 80 in 1857-which came, appropriately, while the by then viscount was reading Gibbon-is circumstantial to a fault. The book bristles with references to "new sources" of information, as well as a full quota of those "we can fairly assumes" peculiar to Victorian biography. It comes fully provided, too, with an index...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ha-h'm | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

...have sat through the movie too many times for its tragedy to be compelling. Perhaps because the killings happened so late in the year.... At any rate, only three colleges closed in sympathy to the killings at Jackson as opposed to the 479 that closed in mourning of Kent...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Jackson State Old Times There Are Forgotten | 5/26/1971 | See Source »

Moreover, in the strike speeches around the country. Jackson was included only as an afterthought, as further evidence to the perils of opposing the Nixon administration. Jackson was drawn into the public mind as the caboose to the Kent train. The fact that it had originally been on a different track was soon forgotten. Thus, as the student-as-nigger express backed out in June, Jackson-never fully into the station of public concern-led the way to oblivion. Falsely coupled to the planned obsolescence of the Kent State-Cambodia issue, the enduring problems of the Southern black went...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Jackson State Old Times There Are Forgotten | 5/26/1971 | See Source »

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