Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most students have no special quarrel with the profit motive, and an estimated 30% of all graduates go into business. As a senior at Columbia University puts it: "I think it's great that all the academic virtuosos are turning up their noses at the good business jobs. Let the brains starve in South America while I make $20,000 a year...
Price fielded questions from the students. After 30 minutes of discussion, the students decided to leave and let the committee proceed with its business...
...soon as the 135 students can move into Mather, the other Houses will be able to start "deconverting" by assigning fewer students to now-overcrowded rooms. 'Our goal is to let every junior and senior have a single bedroom," Watson said...
...military band plays an exhilarating march; a moment later the tune is whistled by a doomed man. A woman is run, naked, through a line of whippers; her lover, unable to watch, jumps to his death. Other prisoners follow his example like an audience seeking exits during a fire. "Let's have order here," decrees the commandant, a connoisseur of chaos and a predecessor of the concentration-camp officers who would one day perform the same tasks with greater efficiency...
...freshmen to meet the P.T. requirement. But if a student would rather not do anything physical, sex excluded, it should be his choice, and apparently, many freshmen would prefer to do nothing along these lines, and there are doing nothing. It seems a bit pathetic that someone could just let his body vegetate, but it probably doesn't seem pathetic to those that are physically vegetating. And that's the way everything else is at Harvard. The decision is up to the individual. If a student wants to pad his butt, let him. P.T. coupons are an unjustified attempt...