Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voicelessness of the faculty only aided Kirk's assumption of power. Under Kirk's predecessor. Nicholas Butler, the various departments and professional schools increased their self-centered autonomy. No faculty body was broad enough to seriously challenge major administrative decisions. Divided into three branches, the undergraduate faculty, lacked even a joint senate in which to voice complaints. Arbitrary administration and an inactive faculty voice made hope of changing university policy in "normal" channels dismally dim. By then the wall was ready for the stick...
...associate director of personnel, John B. Butler, later stated that Harvard could not act as supervising employer for a C.O. because it would violate the confidentiality of the employee's record. Although Harvard would, if the employee requested it, provide any information to a draft board, it could not promise in advance to sign the Selective Service forms necessary to certify his alternate service...
...Butler stated that responsibility for the ruling rested with the Personnel Office. The University should take the necessary steps to overrule Personnel policy and make it known, publicly and to state Selective Service directors, that Harvard is willing to serve as an alternate service employer. To do less would discriminate against people who are fulfilling their service obligation in as legal and legitimate a way as, say ROTC candidates...
...explained that he did not want to get out of the habit. Some time before he died at 94, Bernard Berenson confided to his diary: "Only in what might be called my old age have I become aware of sex and the animal in woman." William Butler Yeats, who finally married at 52, was well into his 70s before he began trumpeting the raw sexuality of The Wild Old Wicked Man. Victor Hugo, at 82, told the French Senate with a wicked exuberance: "It is difficult for a man of my years to address such an august body. Almost...
...transmission of culture from one generation to the next a highly laudable occupation. But neither business leaders nor student leaders should expect the university to save the world, or even the community. "It is sufficient if it removes a little ignorance"--and, in the days of Nicholas Murray Butler, it did just that. America did not bother its universities, and vice versa. After the Depression and World War II, when a college education became the property of the middle class, so paltry a goal as the removal of "a little ignorance" would no longer do. Colleges had to justify themselves...