Word: various
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What will be the effect if the various changes in Harvard ROTC programs being recommended for faculty action are approved...
...possible, providing, one of the founders wrote, "a medium through which leading scholars can address each other." The title itself refers to Daedalus, the Greek scientist who escaped from the labyrinth. The scholar, according to the comparison, has his own labyrinth to escape from. Daedalus gathers view-points from various faculties on questions that have long called for the collaboration of the whole academic community. Few professors turn down a chance to participate in the Daedalus "conference," which precedes the publication of every issue...
...faculty and the presence of subjects that can only be defined as military (professional) skills--would not be an appropriate action for the Harvard faculty. I question whether the Harvard faculty would wish to engage in a witch hunt to identify and challenge all "weak courses" offered by the various departments of the university. Better, in my judgment, is an action by the faculty to cause a thorough reappraisal of the ROTC curricula, within the framework of flexibility available to each service, that would make the ROTC courses of acceptable quality...
...Paine Hall sit-in of Dec. 12, of course, effectively diverted any debate about ROTC for more than five weeks. As the various institutions--the SFAC, the HRPC, the HUC, the SDS, and the Faculty--turned their attention to issues of punishment and student participation, the question of ROTC's future disappeared temporarily...
...order to perpetuate love at the level of ecstasy." The trouble is that Mosley's characters, a nameless man and woman who are married to others at the opening, create the dreariest and most passive of difficulties. The book jumps back and forth in time, showing them at various stages of their affair. Their problems are scarcely the sort to elicit ecstasy-or belief: Where is her diaphragm? Is their love-making a hostile act? On her part or his? Shall she go to work that day? Shall he commit suicide if she does go to work? Or shall...