Word: elders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merger is "being considered very seriously," according to J. P. Elder, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. ELDER, who favors the move, said yesterday that he expected the faculty of Arts and sciences to consider the matter formally next month...
Within the University there is a feeling, according to Elder, that women come to the Radcliffe GSAS planning to study under the Harvard Faculty and ought to receive a Harvard doctorate. Also, there is much duplication in the present separate administrations and admissions procedures...
...Elder added that the only apparent objection to the merger would be straight anti-feminism--"a prejudice, not an argument...
...EverPresent Possibility." In contrast, Walter Lippmann, 72, elder statesman of the U.S. columnists, had a clear and unblinking view: "A full nuclear war would produce by far the biggest convulsion which has ever occurred since man appeared on this planet. In saying this, my object is not to add to the general creepiness. But we cannot understand the realities unless we remind ourselves that nuclear war is not just another war, but a wholly new order of violence...
...gaudy and eccentric family named Glass. The chronicle of the clan's fortunes is far from finished (the Glasses have so far made their appearance only in Franny, Zooey, and five other stories), but it is already one of the indelible family sagas to appear in the U.S. The elder Glasses are Irish-Jewish vaudevillians now retired to a life of comfortable reminiscence. Les Glass and Bessie Gallagher, professionally known as Gallagher & Glass, achieved "more than just passing notability on the old Pantages and Orpheum circuits." They are descended from "an astonishingly long and motley double-file of professional entertainers...