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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE WAS something wrong. Perhaps the Corporation didn't quite understand. It was true that the Faculty had voted against abolishing ROTC outright but no one had taken this to represent a ringing affirmation of the program. What was worse, the Corporation had not even committed itself to the changes which the Faculty had approved. The strongest commitment of Pusey's letter seemed to be contained in his determination that ROTC be retained at Harvard: as for the Faculty's requests for reforms, the Corporation had agreed only to enter into negotiations to try to implement them. The Corporation appears...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: Pusey's Letter | 2/25/1969 | See Source »

Williams favors a large degree of local political and economic autonomy because local needs relate to ethnic, cultural, and ecological factors. Only the people living in an area really understand their own needs...

Author: By Nancy C. Anderson, | Title: A New Power In Roxbury; The Ghetto Means Money | 2/24/1969 | See Source »

...black, one in white, one nude. He used this trio in several different canvases, known collectively as "the Sphinx" cycle. They epitomized, as no other subject could, the shy, alcoholic bachelor's agonized obsession with that half of the human race which he never was able to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lithography: Three Faces of Eve | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...horizons of what we can do are expanding," Lewis said. "Our feelings toward BAD have not changed, but they have refined--we better understand what we are doing. We want to expand the cultural horizons of the city; we want to print the finest reviews; we want whatever can be done with honesty and integrity...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Making It on Boylston Street | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...have often signed advertisements along with people whose politics I did not entirely like. But the political response the ad has evoked from the Harvard administration is my problem, precisely because I did sign. Dean Ford has publicly welcomed the ad, though for reasons I now cannot understand he never endorsed the opposition to ROTC. And President Pusey has issued a statement describing himself on the barricades defending our liberties. But where were the barricades, and where was he, during the years when the content of certain Harvard courses was determined by the Department of Defense? I am afraid that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WALZER EXPLAINS | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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