Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well illustrated in its non-decision regarding student seating. For the first hour of the debate between the HUC and COH, the Masters offered a barrage of reasons for the impossibility of such an innovation. Finally, Master Zeph Stewart confronted the Committee with what he considered to be the real reason for their opposition. "We haven't given any good reasons for not letting students on," Stewart said. "In fact, there is no philosophical reason why they shouldn't sit on the Committee. The problem is simply one of ages. We would feel stupid if they were to attend...
...fact is, that with real expenses rising linearly and the investments rising exponentially, Harvard cannot lose over time by allowing the endowment to shoulder more of the burden which student fees now carry....The lowered growth rate will over time approach the old higher rate asymptotically...
Conventional wisdom has it that while the Board of Overseers has the final legal power over university decisions, the Corporation is the real financial planning body of Harvard. This is quite alarming because the five-man Corporation is dominated by super-rich big businessmen and is self-perpetuating to boot...
...liberals are scant of new ideas. "You'd think Harvard and MIT between them could produce some real fiery stuff about what the military is doing to foreign policy. You get more from a state university." The Harvard audience hissed, so with a smile Goodwin added, "We did produce Alger Hiss and Dean Acheson...
...work real change requires two things, according to Goodwin. First, we must recruit leadership whose idealism is convincing. A sense of restored national purpose, as in the Kennedy years, would provide the impetus for broader control of industrial and technological growth. (Idealism will be scarce so long as American foreign policy is blundering and violent...