Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) promised to compensate Harvard for disrupting life in the Yard while they extended the Red Line subway network past the Square, an agreement that provoked charges of sweetheart deal' from city officials who wanted a slice of the MBTA pie for Cambridge...
...School gifts committee and the Engelhard family produced a compromise acceptable to students, the Engelhard Foundation and family, and hence to administration officials. Though no party was ecstatic about the outcome of the compromise, in the words of Ira A. Jackson '70, associate dean of the Kennedy School, the agreement brought "institutional relief...
Nobody left after the closing prayer. They stayed to hear Mark Smith '72-4 charge the K-School administrators with violating a moral obligation by honoring a man whose actions contradicted the philosophy of a school of public affairs. The protesters demanded that the K-School renounce its agreement with the Engelhard Foundation and return the $1 million gift. Students argued that since the University would probably not name a library after Adolf Hitler, it should not dedicate one to Engelhard...
...student committee members who had been negotiating with the Engelhard Foundation accomplished their goal when in mid-May they helped to bring about a satisfactory compromise. The agreement involved compromise on both sides, with the students sacrificing more of their original demands. The students had wanted the school to renounce its agreement on the library's dedication with the Engelhard Roundation and to return the money. The foundation had wanted the K-School library to stand in honor of Charles Engelhard. However, it offered to modify its original request, and accepted instead a plaque stating the library was given...
Confusion has reigned within Radcliffe and without since the "non-merger merger" agreement of 1977 with Harvard turned over the responsibility of educating undergraduate women to Harvard. Radcliffe is supposed to participate actively in the formation of policies affecting women and to serve as a strong advocate for women in a University community that has a history of sluggishness in providing an education for women...