Word: fights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president's desk. Perhaps no other symbol could as well represent six years of trials and tribulations for Dr. J. Paul Mather, president of the University of Massachusetts and center of one of the greatest educational controversies in the history of this state. During the six years of his fight to achieve relative independence from the state governmental bureaucracy his black hair has turned almost white and his forehead became crossed with lines of worry; aged 44, Mather looks closer...
...idea of a 'dedicated teacher' who completely ignores his salary is a great deal of bunk," Mather cuttingly remarked. Two days later, in order to call public attention to the legislature's actions, the president resigned his post effective June 30, 1960. He showed no intention of dropping his fight, however. "During this, my final academic year at the University of Massachusetts," Mather wrote in his resignation statement, "I plan personally to carry the major problem of the University--the need for better faculty and administrative salaries--to the legislature, the state administration and the electorate...
...Soviet walkout indicated a strong fight in the committee...
Mortimer saw that the fight was over, that it was time to leave the program-littered battlefield...
John Paul Jones, by Samuel Eliot Morison. He had a murderous temper, the morals of a tomcat and a colossal ego, but he could fight a ship. A biography of the great naval hero by the ablest living chronicler of U.S. sailormen...