Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly a mile away from the hub of campus life. The bus, as such, is a tangible attempt to bridge an unjust gap. As to the practicability of eliminating the inequity completely by instituting an all-day bus system, I know not; but certainly the night bus is a step in the right direction. From the Harvard student's point of view, the bus facilitates socializing--with Lesley as well as with Radcliffe. The Committee on Houses should be persuaded to consider the $20 to $30 not as a "loss" but as the cost of a worthwhile service...
...statement blamed the Administration for having "disrupted the Faculty's business of discussing ROTC" and refused to consider the alternative of disaccreditation, saying that "disaccreditation, far from being a step toward the abolition of ROTC, actually serves to re-inforce its position at Harvard...
Harvard is not so different from other private universities with respect to class homogenity. What is different about Harvard is that it alone is in a position to do something about he forces it says it must relucantly acknowledge. Dropping tuition is a step. Education is one of the most crucial necessities for career opportunity, especially for upward class mobility, in our society. If education becomes so aristocratic, if it is left behind so high a barrier, we are not living up to our platitudes about the virtues of American Democracy or the meaning of an education...
...ultimatum with ultimatum. At one point in Paine Hall Dean Glimp acted as a free man. He said, "The fourth alternative is to remove you by force. And none of us is prepared even to consider this." The dean simply refused to do the dance of Columbia one more step. And the students responded, for at that point any talk of "occupying Paine Hall," of 'liberating" it, became (as it had been for most of us all along) out of the question...
McCarthy's cool attitude toward politics this fall, however, and Rockefeller's near disappearance from the national scene, have left the liberals with a vacuum of leadership--which men like Allard Lowenstein are now trying to step into...