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...Pauw, who draws worshipers from as far as 100 miles away for his Tridentine Masses each Sunday in Westbury, L.I. De Pauw's Masses are also broadcast on 20 radio stations coast-to-coast. Another small coterie of believers, who want to make the U.S. a "Christian Commonwealth" (i.e., a Catholic one), clusters around L. Brent Bozell, brother-in-law of Newspaper Columnist William F. Buckley. In his magazine Triumph (circ. 5,000) Bozell has been fighting the traditionalist battle since 1966 but has proved too extreme and eccentric to gain many followers...
John Fox is a second-generation Harvard dean--his father, John B. Fox '28, was assistant dean of the Business School most of his life. Fox fils grew up in Arlington, went to Harvard and spent eight years at the Commonwealth Fund in New York before coming back to Cambridge as director of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans...
...March 1973, State Representative Charles F. Flaherty Jr. (D-Camb.) proposed a bill requiring Harvard to finance the educations of a minimum of 25 students. The idea for the bill arose out of a 1663 pact between Massachusetts Commonwealth's Commissioners and Harvard, in which Harvard was permitted to demolish its Indian College (used to house Indian students); in return, it would provide "rent-free" studies to Indian scholars. But by 1669, most Indians were living off college grounds in farmers' houses...
Flaherty said when he proposed the legislation that it was meant "to force Harvard to live up to its obligations to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...Indian College was a gift to Harvard in 1653 from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Indians and Others. Its purpose was to house Indian scholars, and Commonwealth Commissioners financed its construction. But the original college was destroyed to make way for Stoughton College, located on what is now the site of Stoughton Hall. The Commissioners gave Harvard a sum of 400 pounds sterling to construct Indian College. Members of the Native American Student Association estimate that interest accrued on this amount comes to over $2.5 million, and they'd like to see that money...