Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Peter Simo As the message of the Negro became clear, students began to see, as nobody had ever seen before, the horrible difference between their idealistic world in which they had been raised. They began to see the problem of the Negro recurring again and again in the problems of poverty, unemployment, inequality, and injustice . . . in a society they had always be- lieved to be just as well as affluent. Instead they saw a society that was only half- affluent, and they rejected it, and in its stead they founded an equalitarian ethic the impact of which is just beginning to be felt across the nation. They went from the north to the south, and months later they were followed by the adults-the doctors, the lawyers, and the clergy, the moral authority was shifted from the old to the young-who act first and explain later. Tom Harris President of Student Congress Freshman Convocation 1965

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i H, Robert Case The Peace Corps was first regarded as an outlet for youthful enthusiasm. Now we are discovering that it is an extremely valuable arm of our aid program fin those areas with aj narrow cultural base. These areas require aid in the form of actual people . . . Iohn Kenneth Galbraith Distinguished Lecture Series Nov. 1965 . .A wf ' ,,ki :se 3 . Y H. Robert Case Man has been described as the only example of a 150 pound non linear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor. It is one way of looking at him. Another is as a challenge to fulfill- ment. If we would assure humanity's future we must pay attention to the conditions in the present that will ensure that future. If anyone cares to ask, as Bernard Shaw once put it, What has posterity done for me that I should do anything for posterity? The answer is that it is not enough to be clever-Satan was not wanting in cleverness-furthermore, that Bernard Shaw left no posterity and so wouldn't have known anyway, but that what humanity will always stand in need of this involvement in the past, pre- sent, and future, for those of us who live now are the heirs of the past, the beneficiaries or victims of the present, and the makers of the future. Dr. Ashley Montagu Emphasis '65