Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only when he safely reaches the living room of his Beacon Hill apartment does this man reveal his true sell. After turning on the tube and grabbing a beer from the fridge, he strips away his gray pinstriped three piece suit only to show--aha--that all day long he has been wearing Boston Red Sox boxer shorts...
That the relationship is often confrontational is proven anew each year when legislation is introduced to remove the tax-exempt status of private universities. That issue has been the only one in a long time to bring a Harvard President to Beacon Hill, many recall, Charles W. Eliot delivered a treatise on the need to preserve the independence of academic institutions to the legislature in 1909. President Bok repeated the message before a legislative committee last...
...lots of people on Beacon Hill say they have seen a change recently. James King, who took office just this past January as Schmidt's latest associate vice president for state affairs, seems largely responsible for the difference...
With these credentials, King started representing the University at the beginning of the spring semester. But Schmidt stresses that King's contacts were not the major reason he was signed on to the Harvard team. "There were many more candidates for the job who had more experience on Beacon Hill," Schmidt says, "We wanted someone who was experienced and knowledgeable about dealing with the state...
...never met a Harvard representative until this semester. "With Jim King's presence, things just sort of clicked," Michael A. West, assistant to Rep. James Collins says. "The University gets a perspective articulated over here that it wouldn't ordinarily get," West adds. He further explains that politicians on Beacon Hill "don't identify with Harvard. They're not Ivy League. Jim talks their language...