Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected, the call for change met with some resistance. While students and some Faculty members questioned Harvard's policy on its investments, boycotts, and accepting gifts. President Bok, in a series of letters to the community, made it clear the University policy would not change...
Simmering beneath all the talking is the controversial question of a concentration in women's studies. Some call it a dead issue--the Faculty will never approve it and the University does not have the resources to offer it anyway. Others say a concentration is an issue for the future, when more professors offer courses. And a third group, strong backers of the idea of studying women, nevertheless thinks a concentration is intellectually unjustified...
...five minutes to tie the shoelaces. Keys, watch, wallet. The first picture in there was his driver's license, grinning, sun-tanned from water-skiing, so long ago. He flipped the plastic. Oldest son as high school graduate, long gone, ski-bumming in Colorado, a five-minute phone call six months ago was about all. The two girls and the youngest baby boy--all living with their mother across town, way across town...
...telephone interview last month, Tsongas said he has focused on Harvard in his call for divestiture because "it is in a unique situation as one of the leading universities in the country...
...Ellsberg-Bundy incident presents a classic distinction between the proto- and neo-Harvard man. And one can also draw a distinction between what we call 'tandem grads' (those who got a degree from Harvard College and also from one of the University's graduate schools) and 'solo grads,' who get only one degree from either the college or one of the graduate schools. Obviously, a 'tandem grad' would seem to be at the top of the totem pole, particularly if he is also a proto-Harvard...