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Pusey is not a man of bold action. The Faculty is not geared to make quick decisions based on political events. Yet the events of this year taught them that they must learn how to be bold and outspoken if they are to retain any shred of respect that students might still hold for them...
...bringing the number of undergraduates to 9600. Although Harvard is one of the wealthier universities in the nation, it could not allocate enough resources for an expansion to accommodate 40 per cent more than the present numbers. So large an increase also would be undesirable if Harvard is to retain any of the advantages of its present size. Lectures would be even larger than they are now, with far fewer small courses. The Faculty would be overtaxed; tutors would be spread thin across the expanded undergraduate group. Everyone in Cambridge would be much unhappier than they are already...
Those opposing the firing include President Pusey and M. I. T. President Howard W. Johnson, who together sent a telegram to all nine councillors asking them to retain Sullivan. "Now, as never before, we need stability and continuity in the administrative branch of city government," it said...
...colorless, odorless nerve gases that can kill or incapacitate humans within seconds. Last year President Nixon included such gases in his ban on the U.S.'s "first use" of chemical and biological weapons. But he is obviously determined to retain stockpiles big enough to counter the Russians, who are well armed with the weapons. In fact, thousands of tons of nerve gas, packed in bombs, rockets or artillery shells, are still secretly stockpiled at U.S. bases round the globe. And that fact alone is bound to cause an uproar whenever civilians living near a base hear that gases...
...Harman contends that a fifthgrade education is inadequate. Furthermore, he maintains that there is no assurance that an individual will retain even that insufficient level of education...