Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student attendance and participation in Faculty meetings be ordinarily limited to the student members of the three joint committees and the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life. Apart from the technical problems involved in opening meetings to general student attendance (the problem of providing room for students in the event that they attend in great numbers, and the difficulty of discriminating among students in the event that attendance is permitted in limitednumbers), we have also encouraged a strong feeling among some members of the Faculty that the presence of what they describe as a live gallery with a potential...
...McMillan Cup, the North Atlantic Sailing Championship which started collegiate racing in 1928, is probably the most prestigious event of the Fall season. It is an honor to be chosen for the race, and Harvard, because of its high finish, almost automatically qualified for this spring's Kennedy Cup Regatta at Navy...
...voice of his Faculty, executing its decisions and representing its needs and opinions to the President and the Governing Boards. But what if his own Faculty is seriously divided Should he feel free to take initiatives that may be divisive and risk repudiation by the Faculty in the event that he is unable to rally a majority to support his views...
...Other scientists agreed. In only 18 months, the center's cadre of voluntary observers has grown from a handful of people to more than 2,000 scientists in 120 countries. The Russians (though not the Chinese) find participation useful; last month the center flashed word of an event taking place right on the Soviet Union's Siberian doorstep: the eruption of long-dormant Kiska volcano in the Aleutians...
Tully's most startling assertion is that months in advance of the event a Polish traitor handed a U.S. Defense Department agent detailed plans of last year's Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Intelligence strategists, Tully asserts, then imaginatively suggested making the plans public in an effort to force a Russian change of heart. As Tully tells it, Washington overruled the idea on grounds that the U.S. could not afford such dangerous brinkmanship during the Viet...