Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skaters had won their last seven games, but this was the one they wanted the most, one they have been pointing toward since the season began, and before that since B.U. humiliated Harvard in the same situation two years ago. But the Terriers, who had wormed into the underdog role by virtue of several terribly off nights in recent weeks, played up to potential and reversed the upset they were dealt by Harvard in December...
...traditional liberal stance of the University is irrelevant, what do the students want their relationship with Harvard to be? There are two stances: First, they want a reversion to the custodial role but with a moral imperative behind it. That is, the University should, by its actions, take a stand against the war, and protect its students from the draft with its own power as an insitution...
...Walter Mitty that the activist is only dreaming that he can change American society so that it will no longer be able to prosecute wars such as the one in Vietnam, then surely there is something rotten about society and about the President's concept of an individual's role...
Misunderstandings like these can be serious impediments to the resolution of the present crisis. Pusey writes: "Bringing students of this persuasion [i.e., activists] back to reality presents a new kind of challenge to education, to Faculty certainly, but especially and with painful immediacy, perhaps to deans." Pusey has the roles reversed. It is the role of the students to make the rest of the University understand what is going on for them. Administrators are trying to run Harvard in a way incompatible with the new demands of 1968. Students must make them realize this...
Aerospace Studies 50. Blimp Warfare. Hours to be arranged. A broadly based reconsideration of the role of the blimp in modern warfare, with a prospectus for the future...