Word: pointlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue of opening the galleries, however, the SFAC resolution is a pointless concession to a moldy Faculty tradition. Instead of requiring one or another student organization to request open meetings week after week, the Faculty should vote to open all meetings to a non-participating gallery of persons affiliated with the University except when the Faculty at a previous meeting votes to make a portion of it closed...
...When Marx told his contemporaries that they were reliving as farce what the eighteenth century had experienced as national tragedy, he also told them that the way beyond both tragedy and farce was to make a revolution. At Harvard we also seem to be caught between pointless farce and tragic hope. After McNamara, Dow, and Paine Hall, many radicals hope to make a revolution. The rest of the University does not agree; hence, the Harvard community is in a crisis...
...analysis of his position is wrong, and that if I am right, his position is not widely shared by the Liberals in the university. If such feelings and misconceptions are widespread, then all sense of what Dean Ford calls "shared responsibility" (that is, to preserve the university) becomes pointless. The kind of university that would develop out of such an ideology is not "worth more than any riot"--to me, it is worth nothing. If Harvard develops further in that direction, I would soon be ready to say, "All right, we are two universities...
Punishment is as pointless in this instance as in the case of the unhappy child who insists on wetting his bed. E. L. Pattullo Director Center for the Behavioral Sciences
...million building program this year has made the fundamental distortion of Radcliffe's financial priorities painfully clear. At a time when college costs are skyrocketing, when students are clamoring to escape dormitory living, and when the growing inevitability of merger with Harvard makes independent Radcliffe development seem pointless, the Radcliffe administrators should consider more constructive uses for their money...