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...executives from several newspapers and the Associated Press will come to Harvard in late February to attend a new five-day workshop on growth and changes in information industries...
Sending the recommended number of two executives to the workshop will cost an organization $2750, according to the workshop prospectus. Workshops have expenses, and "we have to make ends meet," Anthony G. Oettinger '51, professor of Information Resources Policy, who is organizing the workship, said yesterday...
...reason for the workshop is that developments like the declining dependability of the post office, the rising cost of paper, and the falling cost of electronic communication influence the ways people decide to transmit information, and such changes pose threats and opportunities for newspapers, Oettinger said...
...idealistic strain. James Madison declared that "the free system of Government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation−Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world, and do more than any other for the uncivilized." The implications of this outlook would lead both to the advocacy of interventionism, as in Edward Everett's 1823 case for supporting the Greek revolution, and isolation, as in William Seward...
Vikor, who plans to attend the coming workshop, said he found it difficult to say if the program will have any direct impact on history teaching at Harvard. But Vikor added that the workshops "meet a need that is very pressing...