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Yale, when its $250 tuition increase goes into effect in September, 1964, will commit $400,000 a year for each of the next two years in an experimental effort to completely eliminate the group of students who are admitted but are unable to attend because they are refused necessary financial...
...brief, their research indicates that certain personality traits which ordinarily would not cause a person to commit illegal acts may be made criminogenic by environmental situations. Not all individuals respond the same way to any given set of conditions, but certain conditions do tend to develop certain personality traits...
...last month that the bill "seems almost certain to pass," told the CRIMSON yesterday that "it will in all likelihood never get to the House floor. It would be an act of political suicide for Elliott to vote for this bill, and I don't think Carl wants to commit suicide...
Another danger in Harvard's world--and one which Conway traced directly to the freedom he described--is that of "paralysis of the will, of a growing and hardening reluctance to commit oneself." "If the danger of a rigid orthodoxy is a completely closed mind," he asserted, "the danger of our particular kind of liberty is a compete open-mindedness." He said that "the kind of aristocrat Harvard produces has the duty to make his commitment." In the end, he said, "only that will justify our elitism. This wonderful Harvard world becomes a coterie to the extent that its graduates...
...said Fulbright, even if the Russians have no plans for open warfare, "neither are they likely to commit fatal blunders of judgment which will lead to defeat and destruction." He said that in taking account of Russia, the United States must bear in mind that it is dealing with a nation accustomed to "patience, circumspection, and flexibility...