Word: allison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparent interest from Reagan added a whole new element. "I personally feel that if the president wants to speak at a university, he should be able to," Van der Eb said. If Reagan wished to speak at Harvard, it was clear, he would be welcomed: Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the Kennedy School, has had an open invitation to Reagan since he became president. But the only appropriate place at Harvard on Commencement Day was at the afternoon convocation of the Associated Harvard Alumni, not, in the words of one administrator, at the Kennedy School "sideshow" ceremonies...
...remembers, one of the things she liked most about the K-School was its claim to personal faculty-student relationship. But when she got here. "I saw they didn't walk around chatting like the catalogue said. Lots of students don't even know who Dean (Graham T.) Allison...
Norman R. Smith, assistant dean of the K-School, confirmed yesterday that Bok sent a letter to Graham T. Allison, Jr. '62, dean of the School, in late May saying it was inappropriate for graduate schools to have their own commencement speaker. At that point, when everyone whom the K-School had contacted indicated they would be unable to speak. "We decided not to invite anyone else," Smith said...
...letter to Allison Bok indicated that the situation had gotten out of hand, and told the K-School it could no longer have commencement speakers...
...typical day at Blackburn College in rural Carlinville, Ill. At 6:30 a.m. a dozen sleepy students straggle to the kitchen of the Allison dining hall, where they will cook and serve more than 350 breakfasts for their classmates. By 8 a.m. other students are sorting the campus mail, collecting the trash or mortaring concrete blocks in a 52-ft. wall at the college's new handball court. By 11 a.m. still others are sweeping out the dormitories, trimming trees and shrubs, and feeding reels of magnetic tape into the college's computerized record system...