Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very much impressed by the mission which appeals to many of the best college students, especially at the most academically prestigeful institutions, namely, the mission to the less privileged in our own or in other societies. A student may feel that the multiversity has become too big and impersonal and may not always be prepared to study a subject in the sequences and hierarchies organized by the sub-departments, and may find that helping a slum Negro youngster learn English or sitting with an abandoned patient in a mental hospital provides a feeling of personal relation and responsibility lacking...
...their "mission" in civil rights and slum development, Riesman indicated. The students may be showing the university how to re-establish meaningful ties with their communities. "It is ironical that when some universities have become planetary in the sense of sending anthropologists and development experts to "Pakistan or Tanganyika," Riesman said, "their students may be discovering underprivileged people right next door...
During a reception last night, President Pusey told education writers that he hoped the upcoming debate in Cambridge of the Doty Committee Report on General Education would provide a new understanding of the mission of the college and set new landmarks in educational thought...
...every well-trained scriptwriter knows, there are four correct replies: 1) Allied commandos and/or Yugoslav partisans; 2) Sophia Loren disguised as a sack of Sicilian melons; 3) The Thing; 4) a gruesome crew of master criminals who have all been promised pardon if they will undertake a fantastically dangerous mission to knock the hit out of Hitler...
Being a German today, he feels, means accepting not so much the disgrace of political separation, since Germany has been a nation for only 75 years in her long lifetime, but rather the pain of a sharp cultural rupture. "There we are," Leonhardt concludes, "saddled again with a mission and not at all sure which one. Bulwark against the east? Bulwark against Leipzig and Dresden [both East German cities]? If it were a question of industry, thoroughness, organizing talent, we would have nothing to fear. But I am afraid the world is going to ask of us just what...