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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shrewdly dropped the financially tricky rider of a free fifth course (part of their original scheme) and were given a political boost by Yale's highly publicized "pass-fail" plan late in the fall. More important was a lot of routine political legwork--testimony before the CEP, interviews with Dean Ford and other CEP members. By the time the proposal to allow every student to take one of his courses ungraded came to a vote in November there was no argument. The CEP approved it unanimously and after a few weeks to arrange implementation, the Faculty passed...
...Kennedy came over to Brooklyn a lot. I must have spoken to him four, maybe five times. He just would come to the park and walk around and talk to us--about school, our jobs, anything. I last saw him in late April. He seemed tired but we talked a bit. Mr. Kennedy was the only politician I knew. Those other guys--Nixon, McCarthy, Rockefeller, Humphrey--I don't know them from nothing. --a black youth from Bedford-Stuyvesant outside St. Patrick's Cathedral last week...
Harvard fell behind 17-0 before rallying behind the running of Ray Hornblower and Vic Gatto to take a 21-20 lead with only a few minutes remaining. But Dartmouth pulled out the game and a lot of Harvard spirit on Pete Donovan's last-second field goal...
...style of urban research ignores the problems of implementing change. There are, for example, a variety of possibilities for improving academic performance of ghetto children--"black" curricula, integration, compensatory education, community schools, federal regional schools, and so on. The theoretical pros and cons of these proposals have generated a lot of discussion--but the fact remains that no one knows to what extent any of them might be effective, or what their unanticipated consequences would be. Says Peter Labovitz, lecturer in city planning at Harvard and consultant at Arthur D. Little, "We are quickly finding out there's not much...
...flexible as Fein suggests. According to Barr, there are budgetary reasons why the Center prefers to work through well-endowed agencies. "The Joint Center has the kind of framework that adapts well to serving established agencies," he says. "We normally look for a paying client. We can get a lot more mileage on funds that...