Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henry Rosovsky, professor of Economics, told about 50 undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty in the Dunster House JCR that he thinks Harvard must find a mechanism for identifying black students "who on the record don't qualify" for GSAS, but who can be brought up to that level with a year of special attention...
...hasten to add that my cameraderie, my sense of belonging, is with the aspirations of the students who level these charges. I'm certainly not opposed to the kind of social analysis they have made. But I am against a kind of short-circuited thinking that says because we know that the police are trying to enforce a certain kind of status quo, the solution is to get rid of the police--where? --in Roxbury, where the police, God knows, are needed all the time by the very poor people the students and I presumably want to help...
...depressing to see that the long-awaited Dunlop Report carries not even token mention of Harvard's more than 900 teaching fellows, currently bearing much of the burden of lower level course instruction at Harvard. This again underscores the administration's total refusal to recognize that graduate students who are given the responsibility for teaching are in fact teachers, and that their remuneration and general treatment should be in keeping with this. One wonders who will be teaching the lower level courses now handled by instructors if instructorships are eliminated, or if faculty is cut back, as was suggested...
...also noted that she sang bass during the harmony while the males took over the higher octaves in falsetto. Rhythm guitar was played by a giant of a man with an Apostle's beard, hollow eyes, and a swollen voice. His guitar, slung low and hanging horizontal at fly level gave soul to his songs...
...laughs often, and usually when nothing is funny; in this respect, he is as engaging and curious as his master. I asked him how meditation would end war, as Maharishi promises. War is an effect, not a cause, of suffering, Jarvis told me. In order to assure peace, the level of personal tension in the world must be lowered. "Maharishi can remove the tension," said Jarvis. "He says if 10 per cent of the world meditates, the world will enter a golden age." What if none of the 10 per cent is Chinese? "That wouldn't matter. The influence will...