Word: needed
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...short, we believe that serious discussion and criticism are in order, but that they require a better understanding of the nature of university teaching and research and a fuller appreciation of the real and more subtle problems posed by the need for outside support. Mr. Glassman concludes his May 13 article with the judgement that driving the federal government from the university "cannot be bad". We believe that the elimination of federal funds would be tragic. Paul C. Martin Professor of Physics Roy J. Glauber Professor of Physics Raymond Siever Professor of Geology Roy G. Gordon Assistant Professor of Chemistry...
Living in the Protestant Bible Belt both delighted and challenged her. "To be great storytellers," she said, "we need something to measure ourselves against. It takes a story to make a story. It takes a story of mythic dimensions. In the Protestant South, the Scriptures fill this role." She asserts her Catholicism with a most graceful catholicity. "The writer should never be ashamed of staring," she wrote. "When the Catholic novelist closes his own eyes and tries to see with the eyes of the Church, the result is another addition to that large body of pious trash for which...
...that Harvard is caught in a financial squeeze which means it must accept largely people who can pay for their education now and can support the University in the future. But the long discussion of finances which followed--showed that Harvard is not poor at all. It does not need to admit people who it feels will support it in the future, i.e., preppies. It does not need to raise its fees $400 next year. In fact, in his full article Labaree argues that Harvard's endowment, far from forcing constant fee increases, could withstand complete and permanent elimination...
...advantages of "nature and inheritance," i.e., preppies, and sons of those "ruling." Yet even after the screening done by high fees the college still applies economic arguments to those applications that are received in order to justify favoritism to preppies (40 per cent of each class). They say they need the tuition and the potential later financial support...
John Gilligan is officially on leave from politics for the moment. But he is still bothered by political questions. For instance, the people most in need of jobs and schools have not shown up at the polls. Three hundred thousands blacks who could have voted in Ohio in 1968 did not do so. All those votes are waiting to be tapped by someone with enough political imagination. John Gilligan is already working...