Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While a university patterned after Mill's ideal could not possibly perform this task, the contemporary university does perform it masterfully. Approximately 75 per cent of the research budget of the university derives from federal contracts, and as Mr. Kerr notes, "Expenditures have been largely restricted to the physical and biomedical sciences, and to engineering, with only 3 per cent for the social sciences and hardly any support for the humanities." But this distribution is defended on the grounds that it represents the national interest and the flow of money after "the most exciting new ideas...
...magazine's staff has proposed that the Trustees donate $500 per issue to finance sending free issues to each of the 500 former editors in hopes of gaining greater financial support from them...
Silence is the curse of moderation. While the overwhelming majority of the student body looked on, a radical, passionate few judged and punished Mr. Leavitt in an ironic perversion of free speech and due process. At Lowell Hall last Monday, less than ten per cent of the University population, representing only themselves, demanded the so-called "right of collective responsibility." This ex post facto support for the Mallinckrodt demonstrators is a cheap attempt to blackmail the administration and absolve the guilty students...
...children cannot be treated in Vietnam, COR National Chairman Dr. Herbert Needleman said, because of the lack of specialists, hospital beds, antibiotics, and nursing care. There is one doctor per 100,000 civilians in rural areas, with two or three children in each hospital bed, he said...
...government affiliation. Needleman said that the U.S. budgets only $34 million per year for civilian medical aid in Vietnam, less than half the amount spent per day on military...