Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to me that you should admit in the case of Soc Rel 148-9 and in the ROTC dispute you use arguments about academic control and excellence to support what you like (abolition of ROTC) and dismiss them as irrelevant in campaigning against something you don't like (abolishment of Soc Rel 148-9). You should admit that you see both issues in political terms and that any talk about academic concerns are pure obfuscations...
...orchestra will play at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and will inaugurate the use of a new hall at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. The last stop on the tour will be Carnegie Hall in New York City...
...difficult to imagine how political parties might put to use the capabilities of the technological age to encourage the workings of a political democracy. One could envisage many uses of mass communications that might encourage the people to discuss the issues confronting America and take a greater part in the political process that decides those issue. The closeness of human living quarters could easily be used to encourage public discussions and massive participation. Also the bigness of bureaucratic government could easily be used to involve more people in the power structure of their government...
Grades are also used to fill informational needs within the university. Students use grades to obtain feedback from their instructors on performance in class. Faculty members use grades from previous courses use grades from previous courses as guidelines for admitting students to their own course. The administration uses grades in allocating financial aid. Although we object to this last use of grades we do feel that information on student performance can be useful both to the student and to the teacher in the education process. The use of a summary letter grade is simply not the best means for fulfilling...
Although the Mexican Revolution ended a half-century ago and some of its accoutrements, the big sombreros and the moustaches, may seem laughable to us now, the Revolution remains an instructive episode in modern history. Zapata's guerrilla tactics were those the Viet Cong use; during the Huerta dictatorship, villagers in Morelos were herded into camps while their land was defoliated, that the farmers might be pacified; journalists and outside agitators attempted to change the course of the Revolution...