Word: cabots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beta Kappa has elected this year's Radcliffe Junior Eight. They are: arbara A. Brown '68 of Henry House and Short Hills, N.J., History and Literature; Lucy M. Candib '68 of Cabot Hall and Danby, Vt., History and Science; Lesley S. Claff '68 of Eliot Hall and Newtonville, History and Literature; Ruth N. Dart '68 of Holmes Hall and Claremont, Calif., History and Literature...
...Mississippi and Light. Harvard is the company's largest common stockholder--its holdings ($10 million then and $13.6 million now) represent 1.7 per cent of Middle South. The students argued that the University power in the company was even greater than those figures indicated -- because former Treasurer Paul C. Cabot '21 and Thomas D. Cabot '44, former member of the Board of Overseers, also owned huge blocks of Middle South stock...
...furor died away when President Pusey, in a return letter to the students, asserted the dichoomy between Harvard's intellectual and financial sides. Bennett--who maintains that SNCC "didn't have all the facts straight" three years ago--has maintained this policy since he took over as Treasurer from Cabot '21 in 1965. A director of Middle South Utilities, he runs the Harvard endowment in much the same fashion as he runs the several mutual funds and other investment organizations which his office handles--for profit, not for social gain. Bennett doesn't sharply define a moral or legal standard...
Critics of the University's investment philosophy have grown relatively quiet and Bennett--like his predecessor Cabot--has been an extremely successful Treasurer. Taking his role as trustee of Harvard's 300-year-old endowment seriously--"I've got to produce or they'll get a new Treasurer"--he has helped spiral the fund to four times what it was just 20 years ago. Much of the increase was caused by a rising stock market that most sharply raises the value of the 60 per cent of the billion now invested in common stock...
...your otherwise excellent report, you neglected to mention a courageous, popular, respected public servant, a logical choice for the G.O.P. nomination: Henry Cabot Lodge...