Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From 10 to 15 students wrote letters which turned down the University's offer of admission and gave the recent crisis as the reason. "They were obviously middle-of-the-road or conservative," Peterson said, commenting that the students felt that Harvard was not a University for persons of their political views...
...that the Faculty is beginning to crawl out from their bomb shelters, they ask us to reason with them once more as a "liberal" community. But somehow their pleas will ever sound the same again. Thomas S. Crane...
When students challenge the university, many faculty members are apt to retreat from the challenge and give the students what they want, or they are apt to leave the university. The reason is that they want to get on with their research, and matters of administration and student trouble interfere with their work. A study by the Brookings Institution found that faculty members spend three to four times as much time on administrative work as they would desire ideally.y It is little wonder, then, that faculty members who grow tired of student unrest simply pick up and leave the university...
...Zero small boys at a boarding school, beginning with minor acts of rebellion, eventually take over. They have no particular reason to do so; the school's teachers and officers are somewhat oppressive, but far more grotesque. All their actions indeed seem to spring from very visible eccentricities or deformities. The children likewise act from the nature of their visual appearance. Small and compact, they are energy-filled balls of light (their clothes are dazzling white) which dash around destructively. The adults are purely objects of satire; the kids, devils...
...qualms, Styron's lack of them is disturbing. But if Styron's quiet reason conquers you--I must say it conquered me--there is a reassuring solidity even in that well-dressed figure that stands between the public and the muse...