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Slowly but inevitably. Harvard and M.I.T. have come to realize that the aloof attitude which sufficed for quieter eras in Cambridge will not do in this turbulent period. As the Wilson Committee, a top-level committee appointed by President Pusey, said in its report of last January on "The University and the Community...
...promised reforms, they came too little and too late. When it could be done at a quieter time, France was ready to try someone else...
When Hillenbrand left, Correspondent Frank Merrick (Princeton '64) took over the job. A veteran of the demonstrations at Brandeis three months earlier, Merrick expected a quieter morning of argument among the more moderate students. He was considerably surprised. "Those Harvard men were damned angry," he says. "After three hours they were still furious about what they considered a betrayal by President Pusey and the deans...
...begins the Easter procession. Something reaches out to the young jungle beasts on either side and they grow a little quieter...
Style and Substance. Nixon expected no sudden breakthroughs from his voyage of exploration. The benefits of his European odyssey are more subtle than that. His patent concern for European views reflects a quieter, more thoughtful American role in the world. It could considerably improve the tone of international dialogue, injecting a new calm and reasonableness that might produce substantive achievement in lessened tensions and new understanding. On the evidence of his trip, the President has laid a sound foundation for the "new era of negotiation" he often speaks of. Especially, he has eased European edginess over U.S.-Soviet conversations, reassuring...