Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good to the Class of 1935. Certainly if one looks at people of our generation in other countries around the world, we are extraordinarily fortunate to be graduates of Harvard and citizens of these United States. There are many things wrong with this country, it is true: evils that occur and injustices that cry out for remedy. They are on TV and radio and in the newspapers every day and our noses are rubbed in them as they should...
...three days ago that he thought the CRR should proceed this spring to avoid any "memory loss" of the two incidents, the student sit-in at the Corporation's Quincy St. offices and the blockade of a Lowell House reception for South African official Abe S. Hoppenstein, which might occur over the summer Faculty delegates to the CRR change on June...
President Bok has remained in his belief that action against the South African government must occur at the federal level and consequently that the University need not sell its stock in companies that do business in South Africa so long as they abide by the Sullivan Principles. The pro-divestment forces, meanwhile, have just as steadfastly maintained that Harvard should and must divest in order to send a message to South Africa to the present U.S. Administration, and to the world...
Liberals--and all who support the divestment movement--should oppose the CRR on ethical grounds. It is a kangaroo court that is brought our only when the student movement gets too successful and not, as stated in the Student Handbook, when violations of free speech occur. The CRR's history shows otherwise...
...forgiveness and reconciliation, but the distinction between the terms never was very clearly made during the President's trip. Forgiveness implies a kind of moral embrace, a clearing of the books, that is difficult if not impossible in the context of Nazi Germany. Reconciliation is a transaction that can occur between two nations. But forgiveness is between individuals, or between an individual and God. Just as one rejects the notion of collective guilt, so one recoils at the idea of collective absolution. Deeds are done by individuals and must be judged individually. One of the evils of the 20th century...