Word: boards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...department voted to add an advisory board of three faculty members to the course but stipulated that the committee members would be selected by those teaching the course...
Roger W. Brown, head of the Soc Rel Department, said that the committee would insure that the course was not "a thing apart from the department." He felt that the advisory board could serve two purposes: first, it would play a consultative and advisory role for the staff and, second, it would increase communications between the course and the department. After the decision, Jack Stauder '61, instructor in Social Anthropology and head of Soc Rel 149, would not make a definite statement about whether he intended to continue the course next year. He called the three-member supervisory group...
...University's legal counsel. During that time at least three Fellows--Thomas Nelson Perkins, Charles A. Coolidge, and Francis H. Burr--have been partners in Ropes & Gray. From 1954 to 1965, when Coolidge retired, he and Burr served as Fellows at the same time, Burr also sits on the Board of Directors of State Street Investment Corporation, whose relationship with Harvard's treasurer, George Bennett, is discussed below; Bennett, Burr, and Coolidge all serve as directors of the New England Electric System...
...President and Fellows, the University's treasurer shall be a member of the Corporation. George Bennett, the current treasurer, is also president of the State Street Investment Corporation. His predecessor as treasurer, Paul C. Cabot, was president of that investment firm and now serves as chairman of its board. Bennett served as deputy treasurer of Harvard under Cabot because he was then vice-president of State Street; he was elevated to Harvard's Corporation when Cabot retired from it. The present deputy treasure is Mayo A. Shattuck, who is also vice-president of State Street...
...Changing the Corporation's method of election (for example, by having a student-faculty search committee) or its character of membership (by having faculty or recent graduates serve limited terms) face no legal restrictions. They only state laws restricting the Governing Boards apply to the Overseers--only alumni can vote, but faculty and administrative officers cannot vote for or serve on the Board. A recent article on this page indicated that--however foolhardy it would be politically to ask politicians now to consider matters affecting a university--it might be safe in legal terms to petition the legislature to remove...