Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HARVARD'S Economics Department offers no courses on black Africa but this does not mean it is discriminating against the Continent. The Department offers few regional study courses. But the lack of African courses in Economics clearly black students' requests, for this Department is probably in a better position than any other at Harvard to provide courses on Africa. The Economics Department is not plagued by the severe shortage of African scholars that the History and Government Departments now face...
...What do they mean amnesty?" asked one freshman of another as they puffed up the red brick sidewalk of Garden Street. "You know, that's so when we get caught they won't punish us," said the other...
...main lesson seems to be that genuine cooperation between Harvard and the Boston ghetto will require great patience and flexibility on both sides. For Harvard, urban involvement in 1968 will mean a profound identity crisis--the end of detachment, tranquility and traditional standards of competence. For Roxbury, getting along with Harvard will demand compromise at a time when compromise seems too much to ask. In the end, both have much to gain, which may be the greatest hope for a successful link...
...constant theme these days-national unity. "However strong, however prosperous, however just its purposes or noble its cause," he told a dinner of Cook County Democrats, "no nation can long endure when citizen is turned against citizen, cause against cause, section against section, generation against generation by the mean and selfish spirit of partisanship...
...letter--"the operation of Hilles Library, the Deans' Office, the protection of the Harvard University Police ... extracurricular facilities in Agassiz and the Gymnasium ..."--we nevertheless fear that any contributions to such services would serve only to free funds for use on Radcliffe's new dormitory system. We do not mean, however, to preclude the renovation of existing dormitories...