Word: edwardes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edward Marks, 24, a former stockbroker trainee, admitted in an Orlando court last week that he had spiked Contac, Dietac and Teldrin capsule medicines with rat poison in a bid to make money in the stock market. Marks thus became the first person to plead guilty to charges of orchestrating a national drug- tampering scheme...
...Eliot's total freedom of choice and insisted that each student must choose a field of concentration. "Every educated man should know a little of everything and something well," he said. The growth under Eliot had made little provision for where the swarms of students should live; Lowell discovered Edward S. Harkness. A Yale graduate, Harkness wanted to give his alma mater the funds for new student dormitories. Yale spent two years thinking it over. Nettled, Harkness made the same proposition to Lowell in 1928. Lowell, no hesitater, said thank you very much and began building seven handsome neo-Georgian...
...sort of place where Author George Plimpton remembers Classmate Bobby Kennedy's "coming to parties with a book under his arm, going off to a corner and ignoring the din and chaos as he read." It is the kind of place too where a visiting student, Edward Lewis, now president of St. Mary's College of Maryland, recalls a lecture given by Professor Paul Tillich that ended with 800 students rising to applaud the theologian. Says Lewis: "That's earned mystique...
...grandson of the celebrated Dutch immigrant who wrote The Americanization of Edward Bok and for 30 years edited the Ladies' Home Journal, Derek Bok was trained as an attorney and came to the Harvard law faculty in 1958, then became dean of the law school in 1968. He still cherishes a lawyerly faith in due process and in reasoned consensus. "Someone with more intellectual flair might leap past process, but it means too much to Bok," says an aide. "He's almost obsessed by a need for fairness...
...recipients are Nathan M. Pusey '28, Mary Bunting Smith, David Aloian '49, Erwin N. Griswold, James L. Adams, Kenneth R. Andrews, Edward L. Barnes '38, Marvin Bower, Allan R. Crite, Paul A. Freund, Francis Keppel '38, Margaret G. Kivelson '50, Adetokunbo O. Lucas, Agnes Mongan, Raymond J. Nagle, Edward M. Purcell, Muriel S. Snowden '38, Harry Starr '21, Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, and Carl W. Walter...