Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
After interviewing students, faculty members and administrators across the country, TIME correspondents support Steiger's conclusions. Said Columbia Law Professor Michael Severn: "The mood is sullen. Students are not happy. They have had a taste of influence and power and they have not accomplished much." Like other campus elders, Severn fears that next year could be worse-and that new violence could invite a "real crackdown." Father Edwin Quain, acting president of Georgetown University in Washington, notes that "the freshmen are much more radical than the seniors, and I'm told that the high school students coming...
October 12: Harvard's football teak did well, beating Columbia 24-14 in the Ivy League opener, but the varsity crew boat came in fifth in a preliminary heat at the Olympics. New Zealand and Russia finished first and second in the heat and qualified for the finals...
Along with Rockefeller, a former president of the Board of Overseers, four other men who have helped govern Harvard received degrees: George P. Baker '25, dean of the Business School, who received a Doctor of Laws; Dr. Robert F. Loeb, a former Harvard Overseer and professor of Medicine at Columbia, who received a Doctor of Science; James B. Fisk, a former Overseer who is now president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, who also received a Doctor of Science; and A. James Casner, Weld Professor of Law, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law, who received a Doctor of Laws...
...Seymour Martin Lipset, the second Harvard official to testify before a Congressional committee investigating student protests, said that colleges needed administrators with "political savvy" to handle potential disruptions. Lipset criticized administrators for failing to learn the lesson offered by Columbia and Berkeley--that bringing in police alienates students and faculty...