Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...youth of the present team (only one senior and four lettermen) that is its biggest advantage and also its biggest liability. Huntling sophomores, hungry for regular positions, can give a team the spark that often makes up for a lack of talent, but they also make many mistakes that lose ball games...
Outlining the special dangers of the present arms race, Beer spoke of "the need of either power to be able to strike instantly with full force." Thus, measures intended for defense can easily appear as preparations for aggression, and so drive a watchful enemy to strike first...
Although the plan's first draft laid severe restrictions on Harvard, the proposal presented last night drew Administration approval. In a written statement, Charles P. Whitlock, Assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, termed the present 1943 zoning ordinances obsolete and endorsed the new proposal as adequate...
Cronin also asserted the University's responsibility to maintain the land in its present status as a park where children ski in winter and play "baseball and football" in summer. The site is private, however, and these games technically represent trespassing...
...said that more scientists in government would make it easier for us to develop from an "existentialist" society into a "future-directed" one. Scientists, who have a sense of the future by virtue of the changing, historical character of their disciplines, can provide an antidote to our "existentialist," present-centered thinking. We are, Snow feels, self-satisfied and unmindful of the starving other two-thirds of the human race. We should make it a goal of our drifting society to feed these people. Such a goal would require planning ahead. Since scientists are more apt to think in terms...