Word: choses
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...October 28, 1636, with a grant of *400 from the Massachusetts Legislature, but its governing boards did not take their present form until 14 years later. A year after the College's founding the first Board of Overseers was appointed with six magistrates and six ministers, and they chose Nathaniel Eaton of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the University of Frankener in the Netherlands, as Harvard's first Master President. But Eaton did not survive his second year after he was indicted for assault for nearly bludgeoning his assistant to death with a walnut club The board fired...
...controversy reached a head in 1862 when the Corporation chose Thomas Hill as president. In a strong show of force the Overseers blocked his appointment for six months before capitulating in April 1865 the legislature relinquished control of the Board of Overseers to the alumni, the system in place today. Harvard thus became the first university to give alumni a major role in its governance, a practice which has since become widespread...
Rosovsky's refusal to detail the action taken in the Dominguez case understandably provoked strong protest from sections of campus. The Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) strongly condemned the University's response as inadequate while several graduate and undergraduate students chose to boycott a class taught by Dominguez to protest the University's handling of the case. "Because there is no public statement (on the case), the University makes taking his course a political act," one student said at the time...
...famous economics professor at Harvard, the young Slichter chose electron physics as his field. He graduated from Harvard College in 1946--after his studies were interrupted by the war--and earned his Ph.D in 1949. Slichter enjoyed what may have been one of the most interesting school-year jobs available at the time--a research assistant at the underwater Explosives Research Laboratory in Woods Hole from...
...WHATEVER THAT AUTHORITY, though, a new president often faces expectations too extravagant ever to fulfill. In 1971, after a selection process that cost over $40,000, involving mailings to thousands of educators, and air travel for the four candidates to criss-cross the country. Harvard finally chose its top administrator. One Crimson editor said of the new president, "He's Derek Bok, he's the Answer, the Savior, the Lucky Ticket, the Academy Messiah...