Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter C. Aldrich '68, a first-year MBA student, also received applause when he suggested "inviting Harvard undergraduates to come and help us understand what's going on." He said many in the College see the strike "as the only vehicle which can keep the newly-opened channels of communication responsive...
...still does not, seem unreasonable to me for Harvard to move toward such a situation as already obtains at John Hopkins, Fordham, and, I understand, an increasing number of other institutions, namely, an organization of reserve officer training which is extra-curricular for all students involved (as it is even here for graduate and professional school students). I believe that such a transition is in the cards almost everywhere, has been expected for some time by thoughtful people in the service departments and, in our case, could have been effected with good feeling and due regard for the interests...
...responsible critic comes to understand the complex machinery by which change must be accomplished, finds the key points of leverage, identifies feasible alternatives, and measures his work by real results. The irresponsible critic never exposes himself to the tough tests of reality. He doesn't subject his view of the world to the cleansing discipline of historical perspective or contemporary relevance. He defines the problem to suit himself. He can spin fantasies of what might be, without the heartbreaking, backbreaking work of building social change into resistant human institutions. Out of such self-indulgent and feckless radicalism come...
...understand. I could not accept the supernatural the same as anything else. It was inconceivable to me that one could cross the line between the real and the unreal, and dwell there. I could not see that one could merge his soul with a haunted quarry--to make a movie...
Though a radical, Barrington Moore Jr., lecturer in Sociology, perhaps best expressed much of the liberals' exasperation with the President near the end of the meeting, "Your view, as I understand it, is that the main threat to free inquiry is from students like those who interrupted this meeting today, while at the same time you regard the outside society as benign. You've said you don't regard the military-industrial complex as a danger. In my mind, the priorities are just the opposite...