Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups of American and Canadian businesses and the Ford Foundation gave the Chair to Harvard in May, 1967 in honor of William Lyln MacKenzie King, late Prime Minister of Canada...
Last week Jean L. Delisle, the Canadian Consul in Boston, said, "we only hope that they come through with a permanent appointment, for the chair could serve as a valuable link in American-Canadian cultural exchange...
...present size of the chair's endowment...
Buckley commented that the chair is difficult to fill because it is interdisciplinary and that there is some disagreement as to whether its occupant should teach about Canada or just be an eminent Canadian scholar...
...April 1971, Yale President Kingman Brewster decided that Yale College badly needed "a coherant, purposive articulation of the goals of education at Yale." He asked Robert A. Dahl, a professor of Government, to chair a blue-ribbon committee of five faculty and administrators and produce "broad recommendations concerning the future of Yale College over the next 20 years...