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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provoke deep shock among those many Americans who have nothing in their experience to prepare them for national failure. Instead of making pronouncements about not being the first U.S. President to lose a war, instead of faulting the opposition at home for his difficulties in Southeast Asia, Nixon would perform a better service by preparing the country for the trauma of distasteful reversal?and for the lesson to be learned from it. If he is to heal the wound, he will need unity, not further division. He will need the help of all those who took to the streets last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: M-DAY'S MESSAGE TO NIXON | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

Monro listed Miles' central role in the Birmingham Head Start program, in retraining programs for industrial workes, in the fight against illiteracy among local adults, and in the regional VISTA program to illustrate the way in which the black colleges can perform a second function as centers for the development of institutional strength among black people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Dean Monro States Need For Strengthened Negro Colleges | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

Dartmouth is the whole season right now, and Harvard's reserve halfbacks were running against the Crimson's revamped defense yesterday, testing a unit that didn't perform up to expectations last week, and which must produce this Saturday if it hopes to keep the Indian offense...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Healthy Farneti Back, Hornblower Is Subpar | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...social context in which truth, superstition, and different conceptions of ends and means struggle for influence upon thought and action. It is not by accident that they are lavishly supported by foundations, highly prized by academic institutions, and influential at least at the margins of governmental action. For they perform two important ideological functions, one for themselves, the other for the official doctrines of international relations...

Author: By Jay Burke, | Title: Money and the Social Scientist | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...which meet at stated intervals to discuss matters of common interest. We realize from our own experience that such committees consume a great deal of time and energy and divert both their student and faculty members from their personal academic concerns. But we would also urge that they can perform a very important function in dissolving mistrust, building mutual understanding, and providing students with avenues of meaningful participation in the life of the departments and the Faculty as a whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fainsod Report: Part II The Faculty and the Students | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

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