Word: edward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) gave a moving decication speech. But 400 people chanted throughout President Bok's speech, protesting the naming of the school's library for Charles W. Engelhard, who publicly and financially supported the South African government's apartheid policy...
...real world. President Carter came to Lynn to campaign for Paul E. Tsongas and to try to avoid associating himself with Edward J. King. Despite Carter's snub, King won the gubernatorial race, joining Tsongas in the Democratic sweep...
February was a month for small changes at Harvard, in Cambridge, and around the Bay State. While Vietnam and China battled it out in Southeast Asia, Gov. Edward J. King and Massachusetts college students slugged it out at the State House. The issue? Hiking the state's drinking age enough to keep freshmen and sophomores sober. Proposals ranged from a flat 21-year drinking age to one plan allowing 18-year-olds to drink in bars, 20-year-olds to buy wine and beer at liquor stores, and 21-year-olds to pursue any liquid vice they wished...
...open meeting between students and the Faculty committee this spring chaired by Edward L. Keenan '57, the most vocal students challenged the committee's stated opposition to forming a concentration in women's studies. Keenan argued that women's studies has no methodology, "no way of discovering facts" that differs from the way any other researcher attacks a problem. Instead, researchers in women's studies approach questions about women using the techniques of a historian, a scientist, an anthropologist or an economist, for example...
...ceremony October 21. The administration was both surprises and embarrassed by the controversy. They were even more chagrined when 400 protestors turned up at the dedication and chanted throughout President Bok's speech because all-night negotiations had failed to guarantee them a chance to speak. Only when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), unaware of the controversy, encouraged the audience to listen to a student spokesman, did the K-School administrators acquiesce...