Word: besting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BEST way to upgrade Harvard's black workers would be continued hiring of unskilled blacks in some sort of "helper" or "trainee" category and adoption of a formal training program to move them up in the job levels. Thus. a black could get a job at Harvard with little difficulty, then receive formal training (not the current informal training or lack of it) to move up as if on an escalator. Basically. this is the idea behind the Federal MA-5 program, for which Harvard is currently completing an application, and to which unions seem agreeable, at least in principle...
...MANY students at Harvard, the campaign of SDS and Afro to promote the painters' helpers to journeymen painters is a complicated and boring issue which might best be left to Harvard and the unions to resolve. It does not seem as important as the war or Harvard's expansion into Cambridge. The University has said that the category of "painters helper" was initiated 14 months ago in order to employ more blacks and train them "with the clear objective of promotion to journeyman after a sufficient period of on-the-job training...
...best known work is the bronze gates to the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome, which commemorate the Italian Resistance of World War II. According to Sekler, the gates "have set a standard for monumental architectural sculpture in our time...
Farneti, who is the third in a line of Harvard linebackers after Don Chiofaro and John Emery, teamed with Dale Neal this fall to give the Crimson outstanding strength at the line backing positions. Yovicsin has called him the best player on the 1969 squad...
Harvard coach John Yovicsin knew it back in early October "He's the best man on our team," he said, and watched as Cornell humiliated the Crimson defense when Farnti was sidelined Clearly, there was no one else as suitable for next fall's captaincy...