Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Radcliffe, then seventeen years old, merited two chapters, one written by Arthur Gilman, "Regent of the College." Even then, Martha Trimble Bennett, (probably a student) admitted, "Life at Radcliffe does not lend itself easily to description." The 'Cliffe seemed to be a dull place-- "there are no picturesque details which can be seized upon," Bennett reported. "A large number of the students live at home," so there was "none of the gay dormitory life which is so distinctive a feature at most women's colleges." An atmosphere of "thought and study invests Radcliffe," Bennett wrote, but "no girl is proud...
...under him. Cabot has already said that he will not allow himself nor any of his employees to sit on the board of directors of "any corporation in which there is any possibility that Harvard might invest," a sharp contrast to the practice of State Street's policy under Bennett...
...deadline approached on Tuesday, Dean Burch, Nixon's newest high-level assistant, carried a copy of St. Clair's proposed response to Capitol Hill. There the Senate's top G.O.P. leaders, including Hugh Scott, Robert Griffin, John Tower, Wallace Bennett, Norris Cotton and William Brock, read it and bluntly told Burch that it was inadequate. "It won't fly," snapped one of these leaders. "It doesn't go far enough," complained Scott. "You've got to get a line in there on your intent to cooperate with the committee." In partial explanation, Burch told...
Cabot and Harvard Treasurer George Putnam '49 both said last week that they are wary of the style of money management which led former treasurer George F. Bennett '33 to serve as Harvard's chief financial officer, as President of the firm that managed Harvard's money, and as a director on several corporations in which Harvard has multi-million dollar holdings...
...treasurer and an adviser to the Corporation Bennett never gave much thought to social considerations. His rationale was always that his job was to earn maximum growth for the university and to consider any other factors was to vitiate this effort. Putnam and Cabot on the other hand believe that social factors must be taken into account in any investment decision because, they say, in the long run socially irresponsible companies will have to pay for their misdeeds out of profits. This will be a factor in all new investments made by Harvard...