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...Substantial progress has been made in the central highlands, where U.S. Special Forces teams have molded 150,000 montagnard tribesmen into a tough, well-trained jungle force that is effectively harassing Viet Cong supply lines from Communist North Viet Nam. The government has embarked on a crash program to construct some 12,000 "strategic hamlets." fortified villages where the peasants will be guarded against Viet Cong attacks by trained, well-armed militiamen. Already 9,750,000 people?65% of the population?have been settled in the 7,500 hamlets that have been built...
Instead, Lowell called for a University which would be both "broad and profound," which would construct a "new solidarity" within the College. The new President looked beyond the four undergraduate years. "If we can increase the intellectual ambition of college students," he said, "the whole face of our country will be changed. . . The object of a university is to counteract, rather than copy, the defects in the civilization...
...Council is trying to decide whether to establish a commission to preserve the Colonial atmosphere of some Cambridge neighborhoods, including Appian Way, where the University plans to construct an unorthodox seven-story building as headquarters for the School of Education...
...this vac and strongly urged the University provide both intellectual and finance encouragement for the creative an Partially as a result of this report, of Mr. Pusey's insistence, the La Drama Center and the Carpenter Center were commissioned. But while Harvard was willing to spend the money to construct these buildings, it has so far been singularly stubborn about deciding realistically what is to be done with them...
Hayes called the Council's attention to "the great battle over another building next to the Cambridge Common two years ago." He stated that the castle "may even be far worse than that building." Hayes was referring to John Bristol Sullivan's plan to construct a fifteen story building on stilts over part of Harvard Square. The Sullivan plan was strongly opposed by Harvard...