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...Having gone to work for the State Department in 1960, Thomson recalls he soon received "several nibbles" from Harvard and Yale to join the faculties there. But when he consulted Fairbank about the offers, Thomson says his teacher's reaction was only lukewarm. Thomson took this hesitancy as a cue: Fairbank felt his student should first complete his stint in government. But when Harvard's History Department approached Thomson again in 1966, Fairbank was there with open arms. "He felt it was time," Thomson says...
...everyone considers it so straightforward, however. The Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), composed of students and faculty, agreed to recommend only the part of the proposal asking for a committee to investigate the need from women's studies. Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty for the colleges and outgoing CUE chairman, says the complete proposal seemed to assume the necessity of women's studies at Harvard, a question that has not yet been resolved...
...have to worry about becoming a growth industry just yet. Although the proposal will be discussed in the fall, its prospects for survival are uncertain. Dean Rosovsky refuses to express any personal opinion on the matter, pending recommendations from various committees and Faculty Council debate. Pipkin says faculty CUE members expressed no hostility to the idea of looking into women's studies, but thought anything else would be premature at this point...
...retiring editor of the Daily Texan, she speaks of her radical past as of a different era. "I've really calmed down and seen the logic of the middle ground," she says. "I'm just not ready to shout rhetoric any more at the cue of a red or black flag." Walsh is flying to Italy in August for a ten-month internship with the Rome Daily American. There her salary will be $80 a week, but she adds: "It sounds a lot better in lire -250,000 a month...
...calls. Later that December, however, at the proctors' play (alas another tradition gone by the wayside, Young says) the proctors planned one more Tarzan appearance. Again, through channels the message was leaked and without anyone knowing who he was, safely hidden on the Union balcony, the freshman, on the cue of "We love you Tarxan," gave one more call. "The crowd went buggy," Young says...