Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UNTIL RECENT essays by George Kennan and Sidney Hook, the academic right wing had not contributed much literature to the debate on higher education. Most of their points had already been made by J. H. Newman in lectures on "The Idea of a University" in 1859. What has followed are variations on two platitudes: that "liberal knowledge" should be sought for its own sake and divorced from practical ends; secondly, that intellect is best protected in a community of intellectuals. These ideas are almost simplistic. That they are worth repeating in 1969 comments on the decay of the modern university...
...start, but Mike Janczewski and Chris Gallagher rallied the Crimson to a one-point advantage with two minutes left in the half. Then Waickowski entered the game, sank a turn around and a three-point tip-in on successive forays and finished up with a sweeping hook from the right baseline shortly before the buzzer. Harvard led at the half...
...Gustavson off a fast break and then, seconds later, he passed deftly over his shoulder to Waickowski on another break. On a third break after Brown missed a shot and Hardy cleared the board, Dover waited for the flow to catch up and then cut across it from right to left for a hard-to-believe layup. That made the lead six points with seven minutes left. Gradually, Brown had to foul to get the ball and Harvard made enough of its chances to win by a comfortable margin...
...agreed on one thing," Womack continued. "We have no intention of relaxing any departmental standards for anybody. Right now, we're trying to broaden the range of alternatives by which students can meet those standards," he added...
...visiting lecturer on Transportation, announced Friday that he was cancelling Planning 11-3b "An End to Urban Violence," he conceded that his course prospectus was unclear. It was worse than that. In vague introductory paragraphs, Bruening promised to consider such questions as "Does society at large have the right and/or obligation to attempt to control or eliminate riots?" But more closely defined, the seminar looked like a macabre think tank exercise in the techniques of riot repression...