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...search for Pusey's successor has already caused the selection committee some problems. In his letter to alumni, Francis Burr, Senior Fellow of the Corporation, referred to the next President as "a man generally acceptable to the Harvard community...
This, and another reference to "a man" caused reaction among Radcliffe women who are concerned about sexism in the selection process. Burr has since stressed that his word choice was inadvertent and that several women are on the list of 600 candidates...
...same announcement, the University named John R. Marquand, tutor in History, as the new Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley House...
...center of arguments over new styles. In the case of the midi, however, the dominant force is a publisher, the press lord of a tiny trade-journal fiefdom that churns out eight publications that few Americans have ever heard of?except for one. He is John Burr Fairchild, 43, the head of Fairchild Publications and the boss of Women's Wear Daily, the terror tabloid of the fashion world. Fairchild is a puzzling study of opposites. Though the columns of WWD are filled with the social doings of what he calls the "Beautiful People," he resolutely shuns their company...
This, and another reference to "a man" caused reaction among Radcliffe women who are concerned about sexism in the selection process. Burr has stressed that his word choice was in-advertent and that several women are on the list of 600 candidates...