Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bowie later gave me two contradictory criteria to evaluate the Center. Either, he said, they chose what they do to serve imperialism, or they do it to understand "the forces at work in the modern world, to see whether we can understand the process of development...
VERNON objects, and many political scientists would probably agree, that government grants carry a "very broad, very loose mandate." "When the government gives someone funds for economic development research." Vernon said, "there are no instructions. It helps us to understand the development process, and they just get the output" of the research...
...University's relations to the community. It should be pointed out, however, that the last subject involves the interests of all of the faculties of the University and should more properly be dealt with in due course by a University-wide body with appropriate provision for student representation. We understand that other committees concerned with the governance of the University are presently considering the establishment of such a body. We believe that it would fill an important need...
...understand it, the Masters are currently divided on such issues as coeducational housing and parietal rules. Some would like to see as much discretion as possible left to the individual Houses to deal with such matters; others look to the Committee on Houses to set guidelines which would be binding on all the Houses. Some are inclined to be much more permissive than others in relaxing existing regulations. Students, on the other hand, overwhelmingly take the view that they ought to exercise much more control over their own living conditions than present regulations permit. In the poll referred to above...
There are, however, a number of committees such as the Library, Athletics, Dramatics, Graduate and Career Plans, Student Activities, and Study Counsel where it seems to us that student membership may be both appropriate and highly useful. We understand that the Faculty Committee on Athletics Sports is favorably disposed toward a proposal to add three members of the Harvard Undergraduate Athletic Council to its membership, and that the Committee on Dramatics has taken steps to invite the President of the Harvard Dramatic Society to join it. We recommend that other committees in the category listed above initiate similar action...