Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam. Many students will make their decision to refuse to serve only if they know that they are not part of an insignificant minority, and that others are acting with them and still others are willing to help them. This knowledge of support would be a long step towards making anti-war politics effective...
...this situation--and there are many Old Guard educators who deplore it--the fact remains: the modern American college has gone a long way toward redefining its function by the mere process of redefining its student body. The college was yesterday what graduate school is today in the educational step-ladder: it has become what high school used to be. Students don't go to college now to become teachers or professional academics, although they may later go to grad school for this purpose. They go with all-defined but very real expectations, recognizing that the complexity of our society...
...opinion that if these techniques were instituted in the public and private schools of our country, it would be the greatest single step which we could take in educational progress...
...letting it ruin you and all you believe in. How can you let that happen? Perhaps there are no solutions to the money problems and to the problems of how to "take a stand," perhaps there are no solutions. Still, to admit the situation exists is a first step, and you won't even do that...
...further step toward dignity, the Senate's presiding officer must forgo reading or chatting with cronies during some of the august body's duller sessions. He must now, the rules insist, give the semblance of attending to the proceedings...