Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such courage ought to be the ultimate product of last week's ugly confrontation at Harvard. The lesson is that force, at best, offers only temporary solutions. What the American university needs above all is a new integrity?moral authority, the unsolicited respect of the young and the old alike. Only thus can the university be immune to extremism and able to follow its calling of truth and reason?the role that Sir Eric Ashby of Cambridge University defined as providing an "environment for the continuous polishing of one mind by another...
...have any fruitful consequences. Most students continue to believe they share large areas of common concern with their teachers, and the Faculty's general posture at its Tuesday meeting served to reinforce this belief. Those students who see the Faculty as Harvard's one potentially responsive body ought to be encouraged by its explicit refusal to use last week's disruptions as an excuse for burying substantive issues. By actually coming to grips with some of those issues, the Faculty can now make students yet more aware of the interests that blind them and their teachers together...
...AWARENESS has been smoldering for several years: that there is something very wrong with the teaching process at Harvard and, particularly, that an experience which ought to be ecstatic has been rendered sterile. Exploration in reforms of the teaching process had had tentative beginnings in February and March, in the form of the Free University of Cambridge, the Conspiracy Against Harvard Education, and any number of other informal groups. The Strike gave these explorations a powerful added impetus...
...class-conflict but as fascist pigs. From accounts I have seen, the brutality of the police action consisted as much of psychological shock as of real physical abuse. Any abuse of police power is deplorable; still, if one wants to sponsor revolutionary, up-against-the-wall-type confrontations, one ought to accept the accompanying risks and not be too quick to cry foul...
...attend the meeting at Soldiers' Field. At the very least it will provide contact with the full spectrum of moderate opinion; at best it may be able to vote some gestures of solidarity and start on the task of organizing majority leadership and majority opinion into the force they ought to be. Whether or not tomorrow's meeting makes significant progress on these tasks, those in the middle must not stop thinking for themselves or stop working on the crisis. `The crisis is political, and political abdication is not an option for anyone who cares that some kind of Harvard...