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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also inappropriate for the Corporation to have taken a stand against the war. As President Pusey said with some justice last year, nobody, under the present system, can legitimately speak for Harvard University on a political question. Galbraith suggests it should be otherwise, but doesn't begin to explain what the composition of the body that represents the University should be or on what sort of issues it must take stands...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Galbraith's Footnote | 1/9/1969 | See Source »

...said last night that each of them at that time declined to answer the two questions about Dean Glimp's 2:35 p.m. warning to those sitting in. He said he wrote the letter to give them "a fair chance to explain because the atmosphere at that meeting was confused...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: 21 Grad Students Release Joint Stand on Punishment | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

...possible contender on two counts: both as a loser and be cause of age-he will be 61 in 1972. But Hubert, tanned, jovial and buoyant as ever, seems almost eager to face another presidential test. Last week his wife Muriel told an anecdote that does much to explain the insatiable fascination the presidency holds for men who have once made the race. At a recent White House reception for the Prime Minister of Iran, says Muriel, "Hubert held my hand as we came down the great stairs from the President's quarters to the foyer. The Marine Band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: The Distant Horizon | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

Sometime Gandy Dancer. Just why this should be, Westermann himself is unable to explain. He is an avowed anti-intellectual who insists that he never reads books. At 46, he still likes to stand on his hands with a cigar in his mouth. After all, he was once a professional acrobat-and he likes cigars. The son of a Los Angeles accountant, he took off as a youth for the logging camps of the Pacific Northwest. Since then, he has worked as a carpenter, plasterer and handyman, fought as a Marine in two wars before hitting upon his present trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Fishhooks in the Memory | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...October 7 of this year several of Wellesley's deans called an All-College Meeting to explain the result of the summer recruiting program. Their discussion centered on the difficulty of finding "qualified" applicants in the "culturally-deprived" communities in which blacks grow up. Before the report was finished, the black students at the meeting walked...

Author: By Richard B. Markham, | Title: Blacks at Wellesley Discover Indifference Swallows Its Own Children | 12/19/1968 | See Source »

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