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Word: coxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name is Archibald Cox. His occupation for the last year has been right-hand man. Among those who count, he is thought to have exercised this power with great finesse and strength...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Seven Men Who Won't Become The 25th Harvard President | 9/23/1970 | See Source »

Unfortunately, his strength has been a little too much and his finesse a bit too clever. If there is any one "law and order" candidate for the presidency, Cox is it. As such he is getting a large boost from conservative professors on the Faculty who think of his role last year as primarily a judicial one, and who believe a judicious man is a man in whose hands the university should be placed...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Seven Men Who Won't Become The 25th Harvard President | 9/23/1970 | See Source »

...alumni and some Faculty, Cox's credenuals are impeccable. His public notices mark him as a moderate liberal: the man who sorted out the meaning of Columbia and was one of the first to give the official stamp of approval to the theory that college administrators were out of touch...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Seven Men Who Won't Become The 25th Harvard President | 9/23/1970 | See Source »

...STUDENTS, however, Cox was no more than the Administration enforcer, and it is unlikely that as president, he could shake such an image. He has always been aloof and evasive to undergraduates, the only administrator on the campus who could say fewer words per public appearance than Pusey...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Seven Men Who Won't Become The 25th Harvard President | 9/23/1970 | See Source »

Archibald Cox '34, Harvard's chief demonstration troubleshooter, filed the charges after consulting with administrators. He said at the time that if any other suspended students were at the demonstration, he "would presume" that they would be charged as well...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: While You Were Away... A Summer Passed Through Harvard | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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