Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Benjamin I. Schwartz, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science has written an article on Chinese student demonstrations for an upcoming issue of The New Republic. "While there's been a considerable amount of talk about freedom and democracy, what the students mean may be something quite different." The China expert thinks the demonstrations will taper off soon because students are busy studying for their January exams...
Overtime costs for keeping the Union open for an additional half hour--from 7 p.m. to 7:30--are roughly equivalent to extending dinner by fifteen minutes in all 13 dining halls which serve the meal, said Assistant Director of Food Services Benjamin Walcott...
...first Blacks at Harvard did not come to Cambridge for the education. They were slaves. Early Presidents Increase Mather (1685-1701) and Benjamin Wadsworth (1725-1737) both held Black slaves in their households. Black servants continued in the employ of wealthier students as personal valets during most of the 19th century...
Senior Correspondents: Benjamin W. Cate, Frederick Ungeheuer...
...could she ever be oblivious to politics. Her father was a Congressman, her maternal grandfather a vice-presidential candidate, one uncle a Senator and another a Congressman. "Since she was a little girl, Cory has been accustomed to meeting the great personalities of the world," says Benjamin Brown, the former director of the fellows program that brought Ninoy to Harvard's Center for International Affairs. "She is comfortable and confident in those circles." Indeed, in 1954 when the well-bred young lady gave up her law studies at the Far Eastern University to marry Ninoy, the sponsor at the wedding...