Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GOOD DEAL of confusion surrounds the precise issues behind today's research stoppage and panel discussions at M.I.T. some scientists, especially here at Harvard, have balked at the words "protest" and "strike." They prefer to look at today as a sort of religious holiday, a time for men whose particular brand of mythology happens to be science to pause and calmly review the overall relationship of science and society. The particular proposals raised by some M.I.T. scientists have also failed to excite Harvard's scientific community since most of them concern classified research on campus--an issue relevant to M.I.T...
...have been embarrassed by the similarities between black power and Richard Nixon's "black capitalism." Not Farmer: "I don't favor simply black capitalism. Blacks can exploit just as badly as whites. There is, of course, some advantage to having our own people be the exploiters. But I would prefer a mixed economy with cooperative ownership to just a few entrepreneurs...
Most employers of large numbers of college graduates (and most graduate and law school admission officers) state that they prefer ROTC graduates when considering applicants of otherwise equal qualifications. They find that the man with officer training an active military service generally is more mature, has had more leadership and management experience and is more capable of accepting responsibility than men hired directly out of college. Nationwide, less than five per cent of eligible college students take Army ROTC. (At Harvard the number who take ROTC is less than one-half of one per cent of has college enrollment...
Significantly, patriotism apparently remains high. If asked what other country he might prefer, the average American still draws a blank. Rarely in the past-or present-have Americans hated America enough to commit treason, renounce citizenship, or stop longing for God's country while abroad. In that sense, patriotism thrives not only among the more demonstrative flag wavers, but also in unexpected ways among dissenters and antiEstablishmentarians. Even if the disaffected young bitterly criticize American institutions and values, they reflect the traditional patriotic view of the moral and providential nature of the American destiny. The insistence that...
...speak for as many as 90% of the Negroes on their campuses. Some, like the B.S.U. at San Francisco, are run by left-wing militants who are at least as radical as Students for a Democratic Society. Others, like Harvard's Association of African and Afro-American Students, prefer the civilized techniques of negotiation to a formal confrontation with white society...