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...Crimson put on its uniform on Friday, May 14, 1943. The banner on the paper read "The Service News", and a box on either side of that title carried a large question mark and the plea, "Submit a Name". A few weeks later, a local clergyman won the paper's $25 War Bond by submitting "Harvard Service News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Faces the Crisis of Another War | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...shootings of students on two U.S. campuses. Arrested for criminal trespass on state-supported property-a misdemeanor-she was urged to plead guilty. "I thought about it from all angles," she says, "and I decided to refuse. I suppose that can be seen as Kantian: if copping a plea is universalized, we would not have a system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Philosopher | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...Governor's diamond-hard line: mandatory life sentences for all hard-drug pushers and hard-drug users who commit violent crimes while under the influence. The sentences would preclude any possibility of parole or plea bargaining (although those in their upper teens would become eligible for parole after 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Lock 'Em Up | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...means all the witnesses agreed. The fact that it was a woman rather than a man doing the exploiting cut no ice with Psychoanalyst Ernest van den Haag. "Once you regard a person as merely a means to your plea sure," he declared during his four hours of testimony, "then you will be ready to commit any act for your pleasure or displeasure-putting another person in a concentration camp or exploiting his teeth and hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Wonder Woman | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

EDWARD L. PATULLO`S " The Case for a Different Kind of Harvard which appears in the December Harvard Alumni Bulletin is a confused plea for a noble cause rational policy making at Harvard according to a consistent educational philosophy Patullo be director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences maintains that Harvard's most important function is the generation of knowledge followed closely by the training of additional "Scholar-teachers". Undergraduate instruction "complements and supports" these functions, but should be designed and conducted only with Harvard's more important goal in mind "the goal of maintaining a maximally productive group...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Are Undergraduates Worth the Trouble? | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

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