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...September issue of the Harvard Bulletin. several faculty members discuss the many-sided troubles of the university. Professor Adam B. Ulam argues that the university has overextended itself and should leave society alone. Professor H. Stuart Hughes writes that the university should stop playing politics. Professor Samuel P. Huntington adds a pessimistic prognosis on the further decline of student-teacher relations. Ten other Harvard teachers submit briefer remarks on the fad for "relevance" in the curriculum. Most express fears that political activism on campus may compromise scholarly values and impartial inquiry. It is disturbing to find so many faculty disturbed...
...would like to see purged. It also wants ironclad guarantees that Dubcek will restore control over so-called "antisocialist" forces, prohibiting them from making any more speeches, giving interviews, writing articles and putting together petitions that are critical of the party. At the very least, says Harvard Kremlinologist Adam Ulam, the Russians seek "some sort of declaration from the Czechoslovak leaders that they won't let the thing get too far, that they will not tolerate real democracy in the sense of real competition for leadership...
...Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government, evaluated the Institute as being "more or less superfluous." Ulam contends that "it might have been useful to bring the politicians up to Harvard during the Eisenhower Administration -- when Harvard was more divorced from the Government -- but now there are enough professors involved...
...Ulam agrees with Hoffmann that the prominent politicians are unable to "say any more than they could on T.V." when they appear at Harvard as public speakers. It would be much better to concentrate on the less prominent figures who could describe the pressures that affect their posture. But even here he is pessimistic about the possibilities: "There are very few men who can express themselves well enough to aptly describe the political process," he said...
...Institute is not designed to recruit, he suggests, but rather it does change a student's perspective. It's object is to attract students to a study of today's policy problems at a point in their education when Ulam believes they should be exposed to history and theory. The Institute aims at exciting young people about becoming the Secretary of Defense -- "undergraduates should be left alone for a few years before they are faced with this kind of specialization...