Word: charleses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tradition's wake on the Charles
Theoretically, Horner's argument makes sense: Radcliffe, unlike coeducational or single sex colleges, provides women with both a Harvard education and the added plus of the watchful and concerned eyes of the Board of Trustees--as well as their money. But as Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard from 1869...
Yet in one instance, change was realized, as student protest accomplished the "denaming" of the Charles W. Engelhard Library for Public Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) gave a moving decication speech. But 400 people chanted throughout President Bok's speech, protesting the naming of the school's library for Charles W. Engelhard, who publicly and financially supported the South African government's apartheid policy.
The cold weather did not deter undergraduates and students at the Kennedy School of Government from picketing around the Charles W. Engelhard Library of Public Affairs at the Kennedy School. Controversy about naming the library after the millionaire who had publicly condoned the apartheid government in South Africa did not...