Word: progress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a further commitment to following through on our proposals with hard-work and well-reasoned arguments. Neither shallow nor egocentric argumentation will achieve the desired ends; our means must be much more realistic. Maintaining a seriousness of purpose, maturity, diligence, and perseverance is more in keeping with the progress made by student groups thus far. In this way, I believe the HUC will be able to consider in depth the consequences of its actions and act in the best interests of the students and the University. Stephen H. Kaplan President, Harvard Undergraduate Council
...progress of your situation in terms of the instantaneously huge distance between you and the airplane. Because the airplane is turning and accelerating and because your downward speed is accelerating while your forward velocity is decelerating due to wind resistance, the airplane loses the meaning it once had as a geometrical point of reference...
...computer is thus the ultimate machine. It can do anything any machine could do, so in one sense it is the end of progress. All of history before the construction of ENIAC in 1944 was but the slow gestation of the monster that is now taking its first halting steps. The rest of history will consist wholly of the development of its potential...
Epps said that he did not yet know whether progress is being made toward the Faculty's other goal--reducing the pressure for grades--but that some study of this question would be made before pass-fail comes up for re-evaluation...
...reply, U.S. Chief Negotiator W. Averell Harriman conceded that the U.S. could hardly talk about the substantive political issues for a settlement without the participation of the Saigon government. He added, moreover, that "there are other matters of de-escalating the war we could make progress on if they did not arrive." That was true enough. But it was also true that the delay in the start of Phase II of the talks- which could lead to a formal cease-fire -had for the moment robbed the U.S. of its diplomatic momentum...