Word: address
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imagine Derek Bok holding open office hours two days a week. (Matina Horner does.)Or the fate of a group of Harvard students wishing to address a meeting of the Harvard Board of Trustees. (Radcliffe's trustee meetings are open to students, who may address them on any matter they choose.) Radcliffe's organizational style makes Harvard's look positively paranoid: Clearly, the presence within the University of such an accessible institution should only be abandoned with some forethought...
...Church of England doesn't want women priests [Nov. 20] because the men are afraid they'll lose their jobs. Women in England who seek the priesthood should drop the rhetoric and address the issue: job discrimination. The priesthood may be a calling, but it is also a means of earning a living, like any other...
...Crimson published an editorial condemning the Harvard republican club for inviting former President Richard M. Nixon to speak here next spring. We were described as being "opportunistic" and we were also insured that "it would, in short, be a damned shame and an insult" were Mr. Nixon to address a Harvard audience...
There are many reasons for inviting Richard Nixon to address the Harvard community: two in particular should be commented on here. First, President Nixon represented a special movement within the Republican Party, and demonstrated an ability to bring liberal and conservative Republicans into the same administration. He inaugurated the first negative income tax and developed the concept of revenue sharing. He has always been well respected abroad, ending the Vietnam War and opening the door to China. In terms of policy, he is a very important figure in our era and very bit as educational as other public officials routinely...
...Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill were conspicuous by their absence. There was a flash of April anger, as protesters denounced the naming of the school's library after an industrialist who had made his fortune in the South African gold trade. Mark Smith, a black senior, rose to address the crowd on the issue, and he spoke with power and elegance. The crowd applauded and left, to don their tuxes and gowns for the formal ball that night. The politicians went back to their trade...