Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calkins tells a semi-plausible story about his entry into the Corporation, claiming that it was mostly an accident. He says he became an Exeter Trustee because Exeter decided it needed a Midwesterner to round out its board. He met fellow Trustee Thomas Lamont, who was also a Corporation member. Lamont groomed him for service in the Associated Harvard Alumni, and eventually Calkins became a Midwestern representative on the Overseers' Board. Calkins winds up his story by saying that when Lamont died, he was an old friend who was ready as successor...
Harvard today awarded honorary degrees to 13 men and one woman, including New York Mayor John V. Lindsay, United Auto Workers President Walter P., Reuther, and David Rockefeller '36, chairman of the board of the Chase Manhattan Bank...
October 7: For the first time in the Harvard Coop's history, a group of students and Faculty members said they would challenge the Coop's slate of nominees for the Coop Board of Directors. The challenge slate, running on a pledge of injecting "social conscience" into Coop policies, said it was not seeking a head-on confrontation with the Coop management, but mainly wanted to "find ways of making the Coop more sensitive...
...Radcliffe Union Students passed one legislative project--an increase in Cliffe parietal hours--and began work on others. RUS set up study groups to report back on the way Radcliffe administrators allotted the college's money and on prospects for ending mandatory board contracts for all students...
October 23: The move to elect an opposition slate to the Coop Board of Directors failed when too few people showed up at the general election meeting. Because only 950 Coop members--500 short of the required quorum--came to the meeting, the stock holder-nominated slate of Direc...from engaging in their duties or pursuing their studies." The House had already approved the bill...