Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left," declared Pusey, "...fancy themselves rising to positions of command atop the debris as the structures of society come crashing down." He blamed the Dow sit-in at Harvard last October on "some few" students who "managed not only to move the demonstration inside the building, but also to maintain there something very like a state of siege for more than six hours..." Pusey's "analysis" does justice to neither his students nor the facts...
...maintain their vital role in the evolvement and improvement of life in the U.S. and abroad, foundations must be constantly alert to the complexities of the world and of their own responsibilities to all society. Their very charters, as the New World Foundation's Vernon Eagle has observed, mandate them as "agents for social change." Policies cannot become ruts; the habit of geese flocking, or doing what the other foundation does and supporting popular institutions and causes, must be sturdily resisted. "Foundations should stay out in the forefront of humanity," says Rockefeller President J. George Harrar. "Our major contribution...
...issue of how the university should maintain order at Berkeley-assuming that dialogue will not resolve all tensions-the report proposed that the chancellor should not get directly involved with administering campus discipline. Under the present system, it argued, the chancellor appears to be both prosecutor and judge, which inevitably makes him seem like the students' adversary. Instead, the committee suggested that a new set of campus regulations, subject to the chancellor's veto, should be drawn up by a rules committee representing faculty, students and administration. Violators would be brought to a judgment before a student-conduct...
...year cut-off, graduate school deferments, has been threatened for all non-science students. The conservative logic runs as follows: A particular cultural approach--in this case, technological, specialized, scientific--has led to America's position of political and economic power in the world. In order to maintain and further that position, the same attitude must be enforced by the SSS on this generation to ensure the future of our nation...
...Public Swarthmore. At Binghamton, the goal of President Bruce Dearing is to maintain the humanistic emphasis of a small, lively liberal arts college (3,166 students) even while developing a full-scale graduate program. S.U.N.Y. acquired the school in 1950 from Syracuse University, swiftly built it into a school often described as "the public Swarthmore." Dearing, who taught English at Swarthmore for ten years, is convinced that Binghamton can combine quality with quantitative growth, but concedes that he will "start dragging my heels" when enrollment approaches...