Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EDUCATION. On the most controversial topic affecting his office, campus disorders, Finch has ignored Nixon's campaign rhetoric. Though the Government can take punitive action, cutting off federal funds from colleges affected by disruption and from student dissenters themselves, Finch argues that the universities should be given the widest possible latitude. Repressive federal action, he says, would endanger academic freedom and harm the vast majority of students who have never even thought of joining the S.D.S. He has campaigned energetically against half a dozen repressive bills pending in Congress. "In all truth," he told a congressional committee, "many academic institutions...
...member of Johnson's White House staff, said yesterday that she has visited the LBJ ranch several times, most recently during Easter week. "My job has been to jog his memory and to suggest possible themes for his lectures and discussions," Miss Kearns said. "For example, one topic might be "The President and Congress,'" she said...
...this topic Howard lets forth quite a blast: "It is the university, as it is now constituted, that is the enemy of the people... because its preoccupation--talk--effectively maintains the status quo... because specialization in the university prevents the large--and radical--ideal from being explored ... [and] because it excludes all who cannot verbalize in narrowing abstraction." The anonymous Reporter concurs: "The university in our society is probably the most conservative of all our major institutions. It doesn't change and hasn't changed for centuries...
UNANIMOUSLY in favor of students, unanimously opposed to disruptive demonstratins, the old alumni who returned to Harvard last Tuesday found the topic of student appearance much more relevant than politics...
Debating the topic that executive control of U.S. foreign policy should be significantly curtailed, the team won ten matches and lost...