Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After President Roosevelt's fireside chat in 1943 when he lowered the draft age to 18 and abolished student deferments, President Conant called for the conversion of Harvard into a war college. According to his plan, Harvard and other Ivy League schools ceased to provide college education altogether and devoted themselves to training local high school graduates for the military...
Before I knew it, I was on strike myself, having been taught at an early age never to cross a picket line and the lesson having struck. I wondered for a spell whether a New York City teacher ought to adhere to this rule, but then sat back and proceeded to enjoy to prospect of not attending classes--in contrast to Harvard-perusual, where I failed to attend them but got depressed about it. As the next logical step, I began to absorb the issues of the strike--ROTC, Afro-American Studies, expansion--and could see nothing objectionable...
Sharp-eyed liquor agents from the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Bureau raided the Hasty Pudding Club after the football game and took the names of all under-age people drinking...
THERE IS probably no one--not even Calkins himself--who is sure just how long Calkins will serve on the Corporation. He is theoretically appointed for life, and he still has 25 years until he reaches the normal retirement age of 70. But Calkins said soon after he was appointed that he did not imagine he would "stay on forever...
...Nathan Pusey will leave his post in 1973, when he reaches the retirement age of 66 which Harvard imposes on administrative officers. Since the President and Fellow have "perpetual succession" under the University's 1650 charter, the Corporation will choose his replacement, subject only to consent of the Overseers. Within will form a search committee to begin the next year or so the Corporation looking for a new president, and the men on this committee will talk to "an infinite variety of sources," according to Sargent Kennedy, secretary of the Corporation...