Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PERHAPS WE ARE effete. What have we, any of us, to show for all our frenzy? Only half-learned lessons in the futility of polities and the inadequacy of moral and logical argument, of reason, of language itself. No tangible results. And there seem to be no more workable alternatives...
"An important thing now is just to keep the issue alive, just to make people realize what is going on over there," said Richard A. Steckel of the UUSC.
The committee, chaired by Jerome Kagan, professor of Development Psychology, "gave us a three hour notice to bring in a concrete proposal, despite the fact that there were still a lot of unanswered questions involving the role of Claverly, Mather House people, and signed commitments to move," Kaplan said.
"Nobody knows what would have happened if the proposal had been introduced early in the meeting, rather than at 6 p.m. There was no debate and barely a quorum voted on it," he added
The Law School faculty instituted this system last Spring when first-year students mounted a strong campaign in favor of a uniform pass-fail system. Even then, however, there was some dissatisfaction and one student commented, "It's clear the faculty realizes this is a temporary solution."