Word: testings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patting these little bearded urchins on the back for having the grand old guts to get off the treadmill, to stand up against hypocrisy and immortality. And it is all very strange to see that at the root of the civil disobedience, and at the root of the test cases, is a lousy weed
...conception ten years ago HSA was designed, it seems, primarily to provide work for scholarship students rather than to allow fledgling Big Businessmen to test their mettle. Indeed, "Financing Higher Education through Student Enterprise," is still HSA's motto. But the ease with which funds from one business can be used to aid in capitalizing another, and the willing and open minds with which HSA's student executives and graduate directors greet the idea of creating new businesses have made the place a haven for latter-day entrepreneurs...
...real test of whether HSA has abandoned its original purpose lies not in how irritating or ludricous some HSAers are, but in the amount of money that's actually going into students' pockets...
...These are test rates only. The average student reads 1 1/2 to 3 times faster than his ending test rates...
Students for a Democratic Society--SDS has an interesting background at Harvard. Its predecessor, TOCSIN, was vital in the early 1960's at Harvard; it was intellectually oriented and lasted as long as ban-the-bomb was an issue, but the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty wiped out TOCSIN's importance. In 1964, the old TOCSIN remnants and several new groups combined to fill the vacuum for civil rights and peace activities. The TOCSIN tradition was one of sophisticated analysis and objectivity, but in the past year there have been trends both towards more emotionally satisfying tactics of confrontation and towards...