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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's cross-country team returned from its three-week training camp with luxuriant beards and noticeable exuberance last weekend, but despite the clear prospect of another unbeaten season. Crimson coach Bill McCurdy seemed somewhat reserved...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Crimson Harriers Return; Heyburn May Be Standout | 9/23/1969 | See Source »

...seems clear that the British intended or at least hoped that this would be a temporary solution and that Ireland would eventually have one home rule government. But as it turned out, the Southern Province became a Free State, which left the Northern Province in an interesting position...

Author: By Shan VAN Vocht, | Title: Ireland: If Joyce Could See It Now | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

While we believe that each of the faculties should determine the manner in which it will select its delegates to the Committee on University Governance, we wish to make it clear that students, as well as faculty, should be chosen to serve. We would urge that no faculty should be without student representation and also that, at least in the case of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, one non-tenured officer of instruction should be included...

Author: By P. ), The City, and (wilson Committee, S | Title: The Overseers Look at Harvard | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

...government, he developed a strong, centralized, departmental administrative system that, to some extent, endures today. Abroad, his military and diplomatic machinations helped ensure the continued existence of a weakened, fragmented Europe, soon to be dominated by France. The Cardinal also devised, as Historian O'Connell relates in this clear and remarkably sympathetic study, a code of royal morality to stiffen Louis XIII's spine and soothe his own (in O'Connell's view) active conscience. To protect his subjects, Richelieu lectured Louis, a sovereign must first protect the state. When the state is threatened, the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cardinal's Virtues | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...been demoted for political action since the McCarthy era, and the only tampering with contracts since that time aside from the dismissal of Timothy Leary in the early sixties. In addition, the Joint Committee did make a point of stating "We hope that the Corporation will make unequivocably clear that any such conduct by anyone holding a Corporation appointment will here after invariably be deemed grounds for immediate termination of that appointment...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Brass Tacks The Aftermath | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

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