Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marijuana so easy to obtain in Cambridge? Chiefly because so few people want and use it. It circulates freely in a limited circle, but the local supply is negligible compared to what one finds in Boston proper; and much less narcotics is used in Boston than in other major U.S. cities. Heroin and other addictive substances hardly exist in Harvard Square. If Federal narcotics agents concentrated much effort here, they would be like policemen looking for small boys stealing apples while bank robbers ran free...
...administrators of Widener also emphasize that undergraduates who do not have passes can obtain books from the stack during the daytime chasing hours. But busy schedules and laboratories frequently force students to use the library at night--especially if they want to read extensively in a periodical or refer to a large number of sources...
...students have not asked for University support in their effort to obtain State Department clearance. Several Faculty members, however, have expressed tentative support for the project. "As a private citizen, I would favor this student effort," William S. Barnes, director of inter-American studies, said...
...kind of education offered by many colleges and universities. He calls for a general education program that would occupy fully half a student's time and give him a more thorough exposure to mathematics, the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities than many graduates of Harvard College obtain. He proposes a specific program of concentration that would take up 30 to 40 per cent of a student's time, and professional training in education that would consume the rest. And he strongly attacks the present system of electives which characterizes higher education at most liberal arts colleges today...
...floor, Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse was livid. "We are reaching one of the most serious crises in U.S.Latin American relations in a quarter of a century," he cried. "We are either going to support constitutional government, or we are going to lose any following that we can hope to obtain by throwing billions of dollars into Latin America." Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening angrily suggested canceling all military aid (some $700 million since World War II) to prevent its use as "an instrument for the overthrow of established democracies...