Word: risks
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Many a G.O.P. potentate agreed that it would be ridiculous to risk wrecking the party in a bruising battle with Barry for a nomination that looked more and more like a booby prize. Besides, a lot of the kingmakers think that President Johnson, all things being relative, has done a good job. In the '30s and '40s, Republican leaders were passionately convinced that they had to "save the country" from Franklin Roosevelt, but nobody talks about saving the country from Lyndon, except perhaps the A.S.P.C.A. "It's surprising," said a Republican leader, "how few enemies Johnson...
...stressed that a good student, whose thesis "just doesn't work out," should still be able to graduate cum laude in general studies. Monro pointed out that a deadline might discourage a student from undertaking a difficult thesis and argued that Harvard College should be willing to support risk...
...begun must be finished. Few Faculty members live by this dictum themselves. Quite often research indicates that an hypothesis is not worth pursuing further or that it requires considerably more work than originally anticipated. As a good thesis is obviously more than a simple research paper it runs the risk of unexpected--and perhaps insurmountable--difficulties...
Forcing all seniors to finish their theses once the magic November deadline has past might actually have destructive effects. Denied an escape route, many seniors might prefer to take a CLGS in the beginning rather than risk being punished for their daring. Also, some theses which probably should not be written will waste the time and money of both students and departments...
...Geneva Landwehr could be heard holding its rehearsals. The remarks of Chief U.S. Negotiator Christian A. Herter were punctuated by the faint oom-pah-pahs of the Landwehr as he warned: "The longer we procrastinate in setting the formulas by which these negotiations will proceed, the more we risk the success of the entire negotiations...