Word: maye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilcox, Dean Watson, Samuel H. Beer. professor of Government, and a few other professors and administrators remained locked in Dean May's office with the demonstrators...
...After May warned the demonstrators at 2 p.m. that the injunction was being sought, the black students held a short meeting to decide whether to stay...
...against my will. I still am. Because the machine was right, upsettingly accurate, again and again. Its personality profile ("Your tendency to over intellectualize," the machine informed me, for example, "may make you lose sight of concrete goals,") came unpleasantly close. Its forecast, though not immediately verifiable, seemed plausible. I could rationalize it all away, but I don't. Astrology used to be a medieval relic, a creation of the imagination comparable to the visions of Blake, Shelley, and Yeats. In its own, non-scientific, metaphorical way, it was beautiful and intriguing. Today, packaged and chrome-plated, gushed'over...
WHEN DEAN MAY called for curricular reform last week, he couched his announcement in dramatic terms: "We should re-examine fundamental issues of the nature and purpose of education...
There does not appear to be any automatic opposition to changing present patterns of undergraduate education; the issue does not break along the "liberal" and "conservative" political lines predominating in recent Faculty meetings. Before May released his announcement, he circulated it among a variety of Faculty members, and received encouraging comments even from some professors usually most resistant to political change at Harvard. The detailed series of questions which May put to the Houses-should action-oriented or vocationally-oriented programs be given credit, for example-aroused some opposition from Faculty members who mistook them for specific proposals...