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...assume, rightly, that a large minority of the Harvard student body will need calculus during college or graduate school because of the growing popularity of quantitative methods in nearly every discipline of the natural and social sciences. But those who oppose the requirement make what we consider an equally valid assumption: that Harvard students are perceptive and industrious enough to realized their own needs and to meet them voluntarily. Dean Glimp has provided an even more telling argument. He stated last year that a general calculus requirement would prevent the Admissions Committee from accepting candidates who display outstanding talents...
...think that Mr. Leventhal has made an even greater error. He says that "war itself is immoral," and at the same time he says that war is an "obsolete method of solving international conflicts," implying that at one time it was valid. Perhaps this is a feat of double-think equally astounding as the one he unjustly accuses SDS of When has war ever solved international conflict? For that matter, can violence ever solve any conflict? All that violence can possibly do is suppress conflict, only to have it reappear in a new but heightened form. Our sitting...
...constitutional command erects a wall of privacy that U.S. police cannot breach without a valid search warrant. But even so, the wall has gaping holes. Police are free to use evidence gained by peering in the locked windows of a private house; they can also plant electronic "bugs" on outside walls to record conversations inside. Unless they unlock the windows or pierce the walls, they need no warrant-for the moment at least, the line is drawn at actual physical intrusion...
...self-serving urge to be liked animates President Odegaard, 54; he does not glad-hand students, and he keeps his contacts with faculty members short and pointed. But he has an accurate intuition of the interests of both groups, the courage to defend their valid needs, the intelligence to give the school a clear lead. A medieval historian whose intimacy with centuries of human experience has taught him to "question the certitudes of people," he continually argues that "knowledge must be humanized." Yet as administrator he holds the reins so taut that some faculty members call him "autocratic" or even...
There comes a season when a church man must take inventory of his life and thought, keeping what still seems valid to him and casting the chaff to the wind. For Reinhold Niebuhr, 73, the inventory spans half a century of ministry, including 32 years as a professor of Christian ethics at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary and authorship of 20 volumes on theology and political philosophy. In a thin book called Man's Nature and His Communities (Scribner; $3.95), Niebuhr makes his summing-up. The volume is partly a confession of past errors, partly an ex planation...