Word: elders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subsistence. The rich buy them off. It is as if parents are afraid to touch the people they created; and in a sense this may be so. By the time parents are old enough to have adolescent children, they often are undergoing second-adolescent turmoils of their own. The elder teenager beholds the younger and sees his biography in the making -- tumultuous prelude to a tumultuous middle. The prospect unnerves him; he disowns...
...affiliates in the houses," so pompously promoted for the 350th, is supposed to be an everyday occurrence. The fact that it takes a very special occasion indeed to bring Henry Rosovsky to Mather House offers an honest but ironic commentary on the distance between undergraduates and Harvard's elder elite...
...weeks ago, before the general student population returned to Cambridge, Harvard's alumni and elder elite celebrated the 350th at special party of their own. The powers that be left all but a few token undergraduates out of that celebration; now, they are leaving us out of the celebration that is ostensibly...
...Harvard effort, spearheaded by attorney Peter L. Malkin '55 and Sen. Lowell M. Weicker (R-Conn.), got around the restriction by securing Harvard the man, not Harvard the college, the 33rd slot in the Great Americanstamp series. As such, the teaching elder whobequeathed his library and 800 English pounds tothe first American college will join the likes ofthe late Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black,attorney William Jennings Bryan, poet T.S. Eliot'04, jazz great Duke Ellington, and writer JackLondon on the top right corner of America'senvelopes...
...Harvards settled in Charlestown, Mass., andJohn began preaching at his local church. Mosthistorians believe he was a teaching elder or aclergyman, although the only surviving document inCharlestown calls him a "Sometime Minister ofGod's word here...