Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both critics insist that college presidents should do more to break the ties that bind their schools to Government and business. But they do not suggest how to replace the vital advantages of Government-financed research that they disapprove of-the money for equipment and professors' salaries that might not be otherwise available. Instead, Ridgeway offers ethical safeguards. If colleges continue to operate as quasi-corporations, he says, they should be subject to public scrutiny, just as publicly owned businesses are. They must "cease being the firehouse on the corner answering all the alarms, many of them false...
...that the Tribune plans to be just another organ of polemics. It wants, instead, to take a reasoned look at the affairs of Harlem and the neighboring Upper West Side, the latter a somewhat dowdy but vital area that embraces a cluster of intellectuals, a substantially Jewish middle class and a smattering of just about every other race and religion. "Unlike most dailies," the Tribune announced, "we will not compete for hard news. Unlike many weeklies, we will be neither a community bulletin board nor a pamphlet for angry manifestations." With a 14-man staff-half black, half white...
...looking for dull reading, Dean Ford's annual Faculty budget report is usually a good bet. Although the budget plays a big role in deciding such vital matters as tuition hikes and course offerings, few undergraduates ever see it. Fewer still would read it if they could see it full of mind-numbing statistics and confusing classifications, the report is rough going for students who aren't skilled in bookkeeping...
Harvard's success in the Yale game tomorrow will depend to a great extent on how well the Crimson offense controls the ball, and Harvard's ball control game will hinge on the blocking of the team's interior linemen. Two vital contributors to this interior blocking will be the Crimson's starting offensive tackles, Fritz Reed and Bob Dowd...
...movement actually share his concern for the revolution--or at least that they are concerned for the same reasons that Mao is. The youthfulness of the Red Guards (most were between 10 and 18 years of age) is logical from Mao's viewpoint, since they symbolize for him a vital new order. But it seems hard to understand why youths should be so violently afraid of death and fearful for their immortality. Lifton quotes extensively from Red Guard statements, most of which in fact emphasize the destruction of the old and its replacement with the new. But this does...