Word: needed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captor and captive. Write Psychiatrists Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr. and Harold Wolff: "The interrogator is dealing with a man who might be looked upon as an intentionally created patient; the interrogator has all of the advantages and opportunities which accrue to a therapist dealing with a patient in desperate need of help...
Many students . . . express the need to legitimize, inwardly as well as publicly, their presence at Harvard while other blacks remain in the ghetto, confronting its problems, bearing its burdens. Herein lies one of the major sources of the demand for courses "relevant" to the black experience. What the black student wants is an opportunity to study the black experience and to employ the intellectual resources of Harvard in seeking solution to the problems of the black community . . . Such educational opportunities would help the black student justify his separation from the larger black community--and would attest that the separation...
MANY OF THE committee's recommendations--especially those for the social center--need only Faculty approval for quick implementation. But other proposals face immediate practical problems. The hardest task will be finding the ten professors in Afro-American studies that the report requests. All of the country's major colleges are involved in a fierce drafting rivalry for the same ten men Harvard wants. The supply is so drastically limited that even with an inundative recruiting campaign, Harvard will have a hard time finding its ten professors...
...have corresponded with Senator Hatfield several times in the last few weeks about the Volunteer Army Bill that he intends to introduce in the current session of Congress. The reasons why I support this bill are myriad. I am particularly anxious to eliminate the need for young men to choose careers that fit the bureaucratic criteria of being in the "national interest" in order to obtain a deferment; for when our government gains this much control over our lives, then we are losing the battle for freedom at home as well as abroad...
...think that service in the Army was an important part of my liberal arts education--for many of my classmates and for myself it was a unique opportunity to work with a cross section of our society far broader than is available in the rarified world of Harvard. It need hardly be added that the challenges and responsibilities of leadership and command are themselves part of a broad education, especially for those graduates bound for professional life...