Word: deane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John F. Kennedy School of Government wants people who can run a junior prom," says Dorothy Bambach, dean of students at the Kennedy School...
...Kennedy's changed it's name and boosted its image. Located in Littauer Center, along with the Government and Economics Departments, it "had to rely on the part-time volunteer services of those two departments' faculties in order to do its teaching," Don K. Price, professor of Government, and dean of the School from 1958 until 1977, recalls...
Price was the first outsider to be brought in primarily to work for the School which had grown--but not drastically--since 1937 when he arrived to assume the position of dean. He says that there were only two courses designed "clearly and specifically" by the School for its own purposes, although an increasing number of courses in the Government and Economics Departments were designed with the School in mind. All courses were formally listed as being in the Ec or Gov departments. "Classes were held all over the lot. I taught them wherever I could beg, borrow or steal...
...reality of the tunnels. But the fantastic stories upperclassmen pass on to freshmen, like many Harvard legends, also have some basis in fact. Administrators never fled oncoming legions of protesters through the tunnels, but when students closed University Hall for a day last spring, the tunnels came into play. Dean Fox recalls that Harvard police used the tunnels to enter the building, while hordes of protesters sat unknowingly on the steps, blocking above ground entrances...
...tunnels provided a handy escape hatch to George C. Wallace when he spoke in Sanders Theater in 1968. As W.C. Burriss Young '55, associate dean of freshmen, remembers it, an angry crowd outside the auditorium had the Harvard police worried. Several armed bodyguards accompanied Wallace, and then-University Police Chief Robert Tonis feared violence might erupt if the Wallace entourage attempted to walk through the crowd. So Tonis had the police escort Wallace through the tunnels to an awaiting car. (When Sectretary of Defense Robert McNamara was whisked away from demonstrators, however, the food tunnels linking five River Houses...