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...undergraduate community--which it needs in order to perform its main and vital function--it must not act as if it would like to see all student employment centralized through its office. An organization which exists to serve students should not indulge in expansion only for the sake of expansion, lest success in empire building be confused with success in providing opportunities for student employment...
...single life raft, built to hold 25 people, floated within reach (four others sank with the severed wing or drifted away), and onto it clambered 51 men and women. As water sloshed into the bobbing raft, Navigator Samuel Nicholson screamed, "Bail, for God's sake!" One man tried to scoop the water out with his wallet. For the most part, discipline was excellent, but there were exceptions. One survivor tried to pull a woman aboard, but "men poured over us. She kept crying, 'Please let me on the raft,' but men kept coming. I couldn...
...begin not with the problem of maintaining the balance between the areas of knowledge, but with that of maintaining the tradition of academic freedom. The tradition should not be taken for granted. The government is not interested in supporting a university's research endeavors simply for the sake of supporting research. As President Pusey remarked in his speech before the Alumni last June, "It just happens to be a fact that in our present world neither eminence nor security for nations can be attained without the help of strong universities. So the government, rightfully pursuing its policies, spends billions...
...note in the CRIMSON of September 28 your statement that after Harvard refused NDEA loans other colleges followed suit, namely Yale, Princeton, Haverford, Swarthmore, Amherst, and Reed. For the sake of the facts I should like to point out that several of these colleges rejected the NDEA program months before Harvard. Lawrence Wylie, Acting Master of Quincy House...
African art, admired in the U.S. and Europe as a rich creative tradition, has always had to fight for recognition in its own backyard. To the natives who practiced it, it was less art for art's sake than a deadly serious business of magic, medicine, fetish and religion. To most white colonizers. African art has always been a mumbo-jumbo sort of thing, "proof" that the native African lacked cultural instincts...