Word: know
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name in fact was Geert Geertsz (Gerard, son of Gerard) and as the humanists liked to translate their names into Latin (and/or Greek), Erasmus used the fact that "Geert" in his time was a form of a verb which meant "to desire," "to long for" (Latin: desidero). You know, of course, that Melanchthon wrote an epitaph for Erasmus: "Eras mus omnia rodere solitus [You were a mouse that always gnawed at everything...
...their problems. The easy way out is to let them have black courses and their own dormitories and give them degrees. But what in hell are soul courses worth in the real world? No one gives a damn if you've taken soul courses. They want to know if you can do mathematics and write a correct sentence." Rustin's statement was heavy with logic-for older, middle-class Americans. The trouble was that the radical young reject this kind of argument as bourgeois and Uncle Tomish...
...think myself that these people know what they're doing--and they're not interested in keeping the university alive as a place for free discussion...
...like to know, can Harvard--or any university--come to terms with a group that preaches that sort of doctrine...
PUSEY: Well I don't know which ones you could say have been granted...