Word: meeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political system, one of the more humane ones. The university is not purely an arena of competing forces; it supports a sphere of rationality, sometimes only a small one, above and beyond power relations. Not everything is settled by toting up the firepower of each side; sometimes men do meet, analyze a question on its merits, and decide accordingly. The power politics approach of current radical movements, however, tends to lessen and even to destroy this sphere of rational political discussion and decision. In the long run, it makes the university a replica of the worst, most power-oriented institutions...
...replied quickly. "None of you Harvard people know what goes on in Cambridge and none of you care. There's a wall between you and everyone else. You all stay here and you don't know what goes on in this town. You don't want to meet the people, you don't want to mix with them, you don't care the least about them. You think you're above the people. You're all sitting way up above them, way up high. Pusey and his men in their diamond cuff links-they could care less about the city...
...problem remains, however, that no one in SDS knows when or where the Committee, chaired by Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, will meet...
Bundy described the Prison Bowl as "a great opportunity for students to meet intelligent inmates in an interesting atmosphere." Timothy P. O'Neill 72, a newcomer to the Harvard team, said the matches are "typical battles between the pros and the cons...
Brewster said the role of the university is one of advocating social change and aiding in the design of institutions "better suited to meet community needs than we ourselves are." He said that it was "high time" for the "public agencies of the society to pull up their socks so that the universities can go back to work and try to break the bottlenecks of medical science, help manpower, and help deliver a basic design...