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...marshalled to serve the intellectual interest of students as well as faculty. Give the highly-touted diversity of the Harvard student body, there is no reason to fear that by fulfilling this responsibility to respect and nurture the intellectual interests of its students, Harvard would be obliged to neglect its additional responsibility to protect its faculty from political harassment in those academic matters which are not also political...
...unimpressive U.S. record of industrial safety arises mainly from neglect. The subject enjoys a low priority in a nation more concerned with war and peace, civil strife and inflation. Management and union indifference, split jurisdiction and bickering among enforcement agencies and gaps in protective laws all contribute to the problem. When it comes to establishing and enforcing safety standards, the Federal Government is largely limited to jobs under public contract. The Department of Transportation handles railroad safety. Conditions in the coal fields are the responsibility of the Interior Department's Bureau of Mines. Occupational safety researchers for the Department...
Fred Hechinger, education editor of the New York Times, argues convincingly that students seeking to make their college education more relevant have chosen the wrong target. Faculties, not administrators, he says, are to blame for the neglect of undergraduate teaching, for overemphasis on science and for the indifference of some urban universities to their ghetto neighbors...
Miss Gill testified before the Council that tenants in Harvard-owned housing have been afraid to complain about neglect, fearing that Harvard would raise the rent or destroy the building. "The men who run these things are strict businessmen," she said...
...high importance. He subscribed to Cardinal Newman's celebrated notion that what the autobiography does for the life of a particular man, the novel must do for mankind. Gary needed every certitude of dedication to sustain a creative career that began late and even so, suffered from early neglect. When he published his first novel in 1932 (at the age of 43), he had already been struggling at his writing for nearly 20 years...