James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and head of the University Committee on Cambridge community relations, yesterday outlined some of the themes of his committee’s investigations at his appearance before the Student-Faculty Advisory Council. At the same meeting a reply from Dean Watson to the SFAC’s request that he explain his remarks about “sons of […]
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IN AN ARTICLE entitled ‘Sexual Role Exploitation,’ in the first issue of The Old Mole, the writer suggests that one way of restoring dignity to male-female relationships is to have girls pay their own expenses when they go out with boys. This idea is sensible since it would assure that girls would go out only […]
THE lecture system at Harvard gives Professors a chance to develop their ideas on some chosen topic at length and regularly over a period of time. It is far superior to the British, system, say, in which lectures are sporadic events to be made use of or not as the mood strikes one. Nevertheless, the […]
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MCGEORGE Bundy haunted Harvard last week, bringing back with him a conception of society and man’s role in it that has recently come to be discredited around here. His argument, astringent and eloquent was, despite weaknesses, ultimately reassuring. The Godkin topic was “To Govern for Freedom in an Age of Explosions,” and Bundy’s message was […]
McGeorge Bundy warned yesterday that the “existing system of government in the United States, already dangerously weak, needs a double dose of reinforcement–to meet both its present and future responsibilities.” He was delivering this year’s second Godkin Lecture. Recognizing the present weakness at all levels of government–state and local as well as legislative and judiciary, […]
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ATTACKING the immorality and illegality of the Vietnam war could conceivably shame people into stopping it but this is unlikely. Human beings are remarkably impervious to the calls of conscience when acting on self-interest. The most fruitful argument, then, is one that attempts to show that the American interest is not, in fact, advanced by […]