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...Harvard’s endowment surpassed the billion-dollar mark in 1970 and has increased twenty-fold since. The University’s practice of aggressive and creative investment, though, has often garnered criticism from the liberal-leaning student body and faculty. Protests and divestment campaigns began in the 1960s when the University founded the Harvard Management Corporation and diversified its assets into stocks and property. The campaigns have ranged from a 20-year, public effort to force the University to divest unconditionally from companies with ties to the apartheid government in South Africa, to innumberable small campaigns...
...1960s, conservatives warned that if the Democratic Party took a stand on civil rights, we would lose the solidly Democratic South. Our stand was neither as strong nor as forthcoming as it should have been, but today we are the party of civil rights, and we have lost the “Solid South.” But because we were willing to stand up, this nation had a discussion that has moved the country forward and is still moving the country forward today. If we stand up for what we believe, we may lose some of rural America?...
According to Andrea B. Goldstein, reference archivist at the Harvard University Archives, Kelly is at least the fifth Parliamentarian, a post that grew more prominent in the 1960s during faculty debates over extensive student political unrest...
Parliamentarians fulfilled a particular function after the upheavals at Harvard during the late 1960s and early 1970s...
...most striking change is the influx of new creative voices and stylistic experiments. Children's theaters started in the 1930s as amateur community projects, mainly doing adaptations of fairy tales and classic kids' stories. More professional children's theaters started sprouting in the 1960s and '70s in cities such as Minneapolis and Seattle, and children's playwrights began to tackle more serious social issues, from adjusting to a stepmother (Suzan Zeder's Step on a Crack) to the Holocaust (James Still's And Then They Came for Me). A landmark play like The Yellow Boat--which David Saar, who runs...