Word: charterers
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...Student Council last night approved the charter of the Harvard Atheneum, the University's answer to the Oxford Union and Yale Political Union...
According to the charter the aim of the Atheneum is "to foster and perpetuate rhetoric and oratory by sponsoring an intelligent and responsible quolloquia of the articulate members of the Harvard Community and distinguished guests...
John M. Gregg '52, who drew up the Council-approved charter, said last night he hoped for official University sanction before Easter recess. Already, according to Gregg, a number of faculty members have offered themselves as sponsors. These include William Y. Elliott, Williams Professor of Government, Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, McGeorge Bundy and Robert McCloskey, associate professors of Government, and William Moffitt, assistant professor of Physics. Both Eliot and Moffitt attended Oxford, Eliott as a Rhodes Scholar...
...charter was passed by the Council after ten minutes of questioning...
Apparently Hlavaty knew what was in store for him: according to the New York City charter, he would automatically be dismissed for refusing to answer the committee. Said he: "I am distressed today by what is happening to me . . . I have a reputation from New York to California as a teacher of mathematics. Three weeks from today I am supposed to teach a model lesson at a national conference of mathematics teachers . . . What is happening here today means, if not actually, potentially the end of a career which I think in all modesty I can say was a distinguished career...