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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says the Atkinson-Stevens report. This is the first reason why "brighter"--more academically and intellectually motivated--students are avoiding business. Harvard places an optimum reward on academic achievement. The reward-incentive structure is one in which you receive quality of grades commensurate with quality of intellectual output. You use your brain, you get a gold star. In its most extreme case, it is scholarship for scholarship's sake. The college supposedly fosters freedom of thought, inventiveness and use of the intellect. Top students spend their time learning to conceptualize, theorize and philosophize...
Even if the administration had eventually found it necessary to use police, Kirk acted unwisely by calling for the storming without waiting for a response to his peace-making effort...
...Harvard did the job of razing the Indian College itself. The Indians were not forgotten, though: in return for the use of the Indian College bricks to build Stoughton Hall, Harvard promised a study-room and living quarters in Stoughton to any Indians who might show...
Before long, Harvard's enthusiasm for Indian education dwindled to a level which met the Indians'. Only a year after the College was built, President Chauncy began to hint that the building--empty most of the time--might be put to better use. A Harvard historian records that it was shortly being used principally "for to accomodate English scholars...
...University should if anything encourage the more diverse, even the perhaps outrageous "recruiters." Certainly the American Friends Service Committee is not outrageous, and it and organizations like it--which clearly have something to say to students about their graduate and career plans--should be allowed the same use of University resources allowed to organizations offering salaried jobs...