Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interpreting behavioral science data. Thus it entailed none of the diplomatic risks that had proved fatal to project Camelot (and almost fatal to the little social science bureaucracy within the Pentagon as well). At the same time the behavioral science officials at ARPA also believed that the M.I.T. project might convince the higher levels of the Pentagon research bureaucracy that the behavioral sciences could begin to approach the reliability and "hardness" of the natural sciences. Perhaps computers would work where foreign data-gathering had failed. In any case, there wasn't any harm in trying...
THERE was something else. An M.I.T. project might have been all right from the viewpoint of the Behavioral Sciences Program, but the Program was really looking for something with a little more novelty than could be offered by yet another M.I.T.- ARPA contract. M.I.T. is the Defense Department's house whore, so although the content of the Pool-Licklider project might have been novel enough, the institutional arrangement could hardly be considered a breakthrough. But if Harvard could be persuaded to join the venture, the project would appear somewhat more new and exciting...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Research and Planning and secretary of the Committee, said the group will make no decision at tomorrow's meeting. It will probably appoint a subcommittee "to look at the Project in further detail," Leahy said. The subcommittee after an investigation that might include public hearings, would report back to the Conunittee...
Chivalrous but cheap Harvard students have been known to give girls parts of their meals in the dining halls rather than pay for dinners on nights when there is no interhouse. Pappenheimer sald that this practice might force the Houses to discontinue allowing girls in the dining halls. He warned that providing free meals to girls in this way would raise the board rates in years to come...
...committee's announced purpose is to consult with administrators during crises and to help decide questions of discipline. But neither May nor one of the committee's members-Alan Heimert '49, Master of Eliot House-would speculate about what specific action the committee might take today...