Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's quick response to the complaints of black students has surely been the most encouraging aspect of a dismal year for University-student relations...
...including such outposts of gentility as Wellesley, and every one of them had longer visiting hours than Harvard. That and the rest of the material in the Pappenheimer report was enough to convince even some who opposed any increase in the fall that the time had come for some quick adjustments...
...Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Faculty also "thought up a lot of things I hadn't thought of," Ford says. He thinks its recommendations may not have smooth, quick sailing through the Faculty either. Some senior faculty members, he says, do not like the committee's "implied emphasis on fighting to get junior faculty...
...there is no basic irreconciliability between the most advanced research and teaching in the College. "Harvard's 'problem centers' have been valuable in bringing different disciplines together and then leading to undergraduate courses." The number of basic Gen Ed courses has doubled this year. But Ford is quick to add that there is a distinction between an inter-disciplinary approach and an anti-disciplinary one. "A student still needs to have discipline upon which to branch out--it is not a matter of tossing away the catalogue," he says...
...Cuban missile crisis. Wicker almost totally overlooks at least the possibility that Johnson's war policy may be ultimately vindicated. The result is a persuasive book-but one that ignores the fact that history has a way of redeeming the actions of Presidents whose contemporaries were too quick to call them failures...