Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first step, the groups has called for a "Festival of Life" to take place in Harvard Yard after Spring break. "The Festival will be a celebration of life, a celebration of learning, a chance for people to step back from the routines of their lives here and think about the way things might be," the statement says...
...difficult to imagine how political parties might put to use the capabilities of the technological age to encourage the workings of a political democracy. One could envisage many uses of mass communications that might encourage the people to discuss the issues confronting America and take a greater part in the political process that decides those issue. The closeness of human living quarters could easily be used to encourage public discussions and massive participation. Also the bigness of bureaucratic government could easily be used to involve more people in the power structure of their government...
Alex A. Inkeles, professor of Sociology, first presented the proposal to the Soc Rel Committee on Undergraduate Instruction (CUI) on Saturday. The idea of setting down general guide lines was considered as one of three approaches the CUI could take in working out a final motion for the regular faculty meeting next Tuesday, Franklin Sampson, CUI chairman and lecturer in Social Relations, said yesterday...
Learning should take place for desirable social ends and for the intrinsic enjoyment of learning. The grading process establishes an undesirable reward structure in which obtaining a high grade becomes the motivational force. The indirect reward of a good grade replaces the direct satisfaction from the process of learning or the resulting knowledge as the final objective of many students. Such an incentive system is undesirable in and of itself...
...GOALS of the Morelos people were limited. The fought long and hard in big-league competition for little-league demands--the plots of land they had always farmed. Over and over Zapata made him men disarm, take off their crossed bullet belts, because a new winner in Mexico City promised him that now the campesinos of Mexico would have what belonged to them. As the years went by and the guerrilla war continued, Zapata did become more sophisticated. Men with grander schemes and more education became his aides and wrote grand statements for him to sign. He reached stages...