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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THAT IS WHY it is too easy to see the people who run Harvard as villains. To say that Derek Bok is an evil man because he will not pressure the Harvard Corporation to take certain economic stands, and because he isolates himself almost completely from undergraduates who want to...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

...women might look back and wonder if the institution they served so well, and which will even then be served well by younger editions of themselves, might not have been served differently. They might wonder if the demands of the institution might not have allowed some room for human considerations; they might wonder if the imperatives of imagined greatness, of dealing rationally and efficiently with a vicious world, precluded so completely a concern for the lives and feelings of those who were not great. If they are truly human, they will consider these matters in 30 years; if they...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

I WAS TAUGHT, before I came to Harvard, that this is wrong. I learned that situation ethics have only a limited value--that they can be applied only where there is not a great, compelling moral reason on the other side of the fence. Although I learned to be careful...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

Frederickson said the university had offered its faculty a 6.3-per-cent wage increase for next year and a 5-per-cent increase for each of the two succeeding years, but then rescinded the offer when the faculty voted Jan. 25 to consider the possibility of a strike

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: Boston University Faculty Threaten Strike in Spring | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

The Administrative Board decided yesterday not to consider action against Phillip J. Atkinson '82 for keeping nitroglycerine in the Science Center, sources close to the inquiry said yesterday.

Author: By Peter M. Engel, Jeffrey L. Saver, and Jeffrey R. Toobin, S | Title: Freshman Cleared In Explosion Scare | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

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