Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strikes did not seriously disrupt the life of the University--to the disappointment of some of the strikers. Thus, they are not significant because of the havoc they worked on Harvard. But the strikes do reflect the difficulties of dealing with employees' changing needs; and the misunderstandings that lie behind at least one of the strikes points out the painful lack of frequent communication between labor and management...
Reformers also share common problems. Conservative faculty response forces delays in student plans at best, and entirely thwarts reform at worst. Equally frustrating for the activists is the conservatism and apathy among their fellow students. They usually cannot claim to speak for a majority of their classmates, nor even reflect a climate of opinion. Law and medical students are satisfied with the system which will make them successful lawyers and doctors. Design students, in a small school which inevitably molds them into an intimate community through studio work, are perhaps best able to achieve a consensus of opinion. So while...
...basically revolutionary. Only a few of the students might propose an overthrow of the entire post-graduate educational system. They would question the values which the system inevitably projects on the students, and scoff at the reverence in which society holds its products. Most of the graduate reformers reflect rather the concerns with power, with style and with participation which characterize many reform movements...
Even when the lawmakers do acquire the necessary savvy, reapportionment alone cannot be expected to solve the problems of the nation's cities and states. Any marked improvement in the quality of government can only reflect the quality of the men and women who are sent to the state capitals from the newly created legislative districts. In that sense, reapportionment is not so much an end as a beginning-and, thus far, a good...
After the elimination heats, the crews eat their training lunches. No one jokes at the meals, for by this time the tension has mounted too high for humor. This tension does not reflect worry. Even after beating Yale soundly in their 1966 trial heats, the Harvard heavies ate a tense lunch. There had been technical imperfections that had to be corrected...