Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be two years before the tenth House is opened, more than enough time for Administration and students to decide on the best way to use its potential...
...Cambridge, and in other academic circles, the dilettantes of education play intellectual games and talk cleverly of cultural deprivation. They write government proposals, requesting funds for pilot programs, involving themselves in the agony of the ghetto to the same degree and with the same embarrassed caution that delicate ladies use when they dip their toes into the edges of cold or unfamiliar waters. Denying its historic role of protest, the University of Harvard stands comfortably in brick and ivy on the safe side of the Charles River, enjoying the passage of another football season, and talking politely at congenial cocktail...
...extent that Harvard does involve itself in the ghetto, it is primarily under the aegis of the rotting schools themselves, in the context of Boston-run compensatory projects which use the name of Harvard in acquiring government money, profit perhaps from an occasional flash of insight, but which in raw fact make little or no dent upon the lives of any detectable number of black children and instead serve mainly to tie up Harvard's hands, the scholars themselves becoming hostage to the School Committee, arming it with prestige, tricking it out with bits of academia, and keeping the once...
...letter continues: "The Executive Committee believes that this is a valuable investment of time. We suggest that you consider releasing from his regular time commitments for a period of one week any volunteer who wishes to use that time to canvass, apart from PBH, in support of the referendum...
...course inexcusable that the College requires a student to stick with his foreign language study, even if it creates obvious academic difficulty. Some seven per cent fall into that category, according to the study, and the requirement should promptly be rewritten to permit such students to use their time elsewhere...