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...From the standpoint of carefully outlining exactly what all of the potential construction, renovation, purchase, demolition and other physical alterations Harvard could possibly encounter for this time period, Bose and those who worked on the plan have done a thorough and superb job. It is hard to imagine any ordinary project suddenly appearing on the horizon that has not been foretold in this report. The report, then, is more one that indicates the alternatives for future planning than one that offers a blueprint for Harvard's future physical projects...
Margaret Stimpson '30, a Radcliffe trustee, said last weekend, "We feel that from a Radcliffe standpoint we will always want to keep all four classes living together...
...second mission was only slightly more popular. As the editors of Ramparts pointed out in a May 1974 article "Terrorism and the Left," the strategy behind Patricia Hearst's kidnaping last February could not have been worse from the standpoint of radical organizers. Hearst's parents, a conservative publisher and a reactionary regent of the University of California, were made to appear as the warmest and most sympathetic of characters, while the kidnapers--and, by extension, the Left--seemed violent and heartless. California poor people were cast as beggars, taking morsels of food from the rich under the threat...
Even from a political standpoint, it might not make good sense for Southerners to continue to support Nixon...
...denies frequently and emphatically the persistent rumor that he wants to be president of Harvard. His real ambition, he says, his own personal conception of his life's work, is to be an outstanding professor of English, from the standpoint of both teaching and scholarship. He is proud of his two books and gets great satisfaction from the large attendance and favorable student reception his courses have gotten...