Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ebert said he wanted to explain the possibilities of the "potential usefulness" when the students come to meet with him today. As examples of the way he has helped improve Squibb from within, he said that he has been part of an effort to re-focus the company's research programs. He has also given advice on which drugs the company should take off the market...
...Cambridge Project, funded by the Department of Defense, would use advanced computer technology for social science research. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is currently participating in the Project, and a Harvard faculty committee is discussing possible Harvard participation...
...Then there are the two fathers of Negro culture in America. Dr. George Washington Carver who came up from slavery, learned to go to school, devoted himself to his own research in "God's little workshop," and eventually developed 300 useful products from the peanut, 118 from the sweet potato, and more than 60 from the pecan. And W. C. Handy, who taught himself how to play a $1.75 trumpet, joined a band of roving minstrels, and became famous writing songs like "St. Louis Blues." After his success, his father told him, "Sonny, I am very proud...
There isn't room here for lengthy examples, but some of our groups last spring did make use of encounter and psychodrama techniques. One group studying the operation of research in American universities confronted its leader with the charge that he was manipulating them. The resulting discussion yielded great insight into the often manipulative workings of researchers. Another group, studying "Legitimacy and Authority," was getting nowhere with intellectual discussion and decided to construct a psychodrama. The device yielded vivid non-intellectual insights which they then successfully integrated into their theoretical models...
Shepard said that the students are not planning to leave the building October 31 "We're planning to fight it," he said. "Perhaps by picketing, or by doing research on Harvard's real estate activities...