Word: clerkship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exchange grew out of New Pathway, a Med School curriculum implemented three years ago that encourages students to develop their own course of study. Administrators continue to expand the program with a third-year clerkship program and a course on patient-doctor relationships beginning this term...
From early on Dick Goodwin was one of the best and the brightest. After attending Tufts University and graduating first in his class from Harvard Law School, he began what looked to be a promising career with a clerkship under Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Keeping on the intellectual fast track, Goodwin then worked as counsel for a House committee investigating fixed TV quiz shows. Goodwin's next move, becoming a speechwriter for the 1960 Kennedy presidential campaign, brought him into the equally scandalous world of politics and power. From 1961 to 1965, Goodwin served Presidents Kennedy and Johnson...
...Quincy House resident discovered this during her clerkship in the merchant's booth. "It was so embarassing," she recalls. "Because in our culture, we do not go out on the street and yell at the customer and drag him into the store and talk to him until he buys something, I was not good at this aggressive selling technique...
Following his clerkship, Rehnquist set up a law practice in Phoenix. There he became a Goldwater conservative who opposed an integration plan for Phoenix public schools in 1967. Brought back to Washington to the Nixon Justice Department by another Phoenix lawyer, Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, Rehnquist was enlisted in the Administration's battle against student radicals, whom Rehnquist described in a 1969 speech as "the new barbarians." He helped devise legal grounds to round up and detain antiwar ) protesters during the 1971 May Day demonstrations. Later that year Nixon rewarded Rehnquist for his efforts by putting...
...School. One white woman professor has been tenured, raising the number of tenured white women to two. Four other white women have been offered one year faculty appointments. Indeed it would appear that white males themselves who do not meet the traditional Ivy League-Law Review-Supreme Court Clerkship criteria are benefiting from this new-found enlightenment floating within our dear old walls of ivy. We are pleased to see that the faculty is beginning to realize that there are many good professors who do not meet the usual standard...