Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entrance to any of the meetings in between. It appeared to them that the committee members already had their minds made up. In fact, the students did not even have access to information. At one point, they requested figures on the increase, if any, in off-campus fees after Mather became operative. The Committee members admitted knowledge of the figures, but said the amount of the increase was secret until approved by the Board of Overseers. In other words, the students could not have the pertinent information until the decision was already made...
Paranoid Profession The stirring of Madison Avenue's social conscience is still tentative and, to say the least, tardy. Appraising his industry's role in the "great moral issue of our time," Ogilvy & Mather Chairman John Elliott Jr. confesses that "our record is not even average. We bring up the rear. That is a hell of a position for people who consider themselves problem solvers, pacesetters and molders of public opinion." It is also a hell of a position for businessmen. Last year, Negroes spent $30 billion on consumer items, or 6% of the national total...
...have a social purpose; realism, it followed, was better than fantasy. The great republic, he said, had solved through a struggle between the ideas of Good Guy liberals, dissenters, democrats and humanitarians, like Roger Williams, Ben Franklin, and naturally, Thomas Jefferson, and Bad Guy conservatives like Jonathan Edwards, Increase Mather and Alexander Hamilton...
...policy is "counterrevolutionary," and that therefore democratic decision-making is irrelevant to decisions about ROTC because there are no decisions to be made. The SDS letter maintains that because belonging to ROTC is immoral, a student has no right to do something immoral, i.e., join ROTC. Visions of Cotton Mather! Or, indeed, George Wallace, a proponent of similar doctrines of absolute truth...
...persons climbed halfway up the 200-ft. Crane on the Mather House construction site for unknown reasons around midnight yesterday...