Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...September 1973, the bureaucratic wheels began to turn. Robert E. Kaufmann '62, director of finance for Dean Rosovsky, sent Watson a memorandum directing him to work for "equal access and opportunity at all levels of athletic endeavor to undergraduate men and women," and asking for a report on Radcliffe's needs of facilities, coaching and administration...
...became president of Radcliffe. During his term, the endowment expanded, the curriculum was diversified, and the Faculty grew--Radcliffe was assured permanence. And the objections of Corporation members and alumni stalwarts--who had vociferously opposed the education of women or, at best, Harvard's participation in such a dubious endeavor--gradually died down...
...with the major issues of the day. The commission would give him the opportunity to think big without political trivia getting in the way. It might help launch him into national office, and if he got there, it could provide valuable assistance. The commission was modeled on an earlier endeavor, America at Mid-Century, a study set up in 1956 with young Harvard Professor Henry Kissinger as one of its directors...
Long range planning for any institution is a difficult and often extremely sensitive endeavor. Given the complexity in accomplishing anything that encompasses all of Harvard's vastly decentralized units and the difficulty of getting a consensual outlook between Harvard and city officials in areas of mutual concern, long range planning for Harvard is a particularly touchy and frustrating task...
...comes to acknowledge, the event that Fischer called "this little thing between me and Spassky" was not so minor after all. "To an extraordinary number of human beings," he concludes, "the events of that summer communicated a rare sense of intensity... for several months, a totally esoteric, essentially trivial endeavor, associated with pimply, myopic youths and vaguely comical old men on park benches, held the world enthralled...