Word: chartering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formal structures of the government probably cannot be changed. The Charter of 1650 which the province of Massachusetts-Bay granted to Harvard College indicates that the Corporation--specifically composed of the President, Treasurer, and five Fellows--and the Board of Overseers shall be the governing bodies of the university. The state constitution, adopted in 1780 and still in effect, bestows on the Corporation "forever" all the rights which they had enjoyed in colonial days...
...governing board more involved with an responsive to the affairs of Harvard than the distant Board of Overseers. The latter was a cumbersome body, difficult to assemble, composed of the political and religious leaders of the Bay Colony. The five initial members of the Corporation as named in the Charter all were recent graduates who were, or became, teachers in the College. It is time to return to the first principles of the University's constitution and create a structure which will again reflect the needs of the community
Moral Force. Bradley disagreed emphatically. The city charter (adopted in 1925) does not proscribe leadership, he argued. The mayor "has to take on the role of being the community's moral force. For most of its people, the city has ceased functioning. All it does is pick up garbage. How can you identify with a garbage truck?" The 6-ft. 3-in. former football and track star impressed audiences with his expertise on urban affairs. To whites anxious about the city's racial divisions, Bradley declared: "Let me say to those of you who are uneasy-that black...
...over the ABM issue. But for the present, if Nixon has excited only a few, he has angered perhaps even fewer. Arthur Schlesinger complained that "no new President in memory has made so little effort in his first weeks in office to define his purposes," but many liberals, including charter Nixon-haters, are finding that they can live with the man surprisingly well...
...were defeated. North Carolina's Sam Ervin wanted to make it clear that the U.S. did not have to defend nonnuclear states against aggression, but other Senators in favor of the treaty argued that the U.S. is already in effect so bound by the U.N. Charter. Texas Republican John Tower proposed to spell out the right of the U.S. to supply nuclear weapons to NATO allies; since the weapons would remain in U.S. control, there would be no violation...