Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first capsule was pulled by Rep. Alexander Pirnie (R.N.Y.), ranking Republican on a special House subcommittee on the draft. He unfired the paper and handed it to a Selective Service representative who announced the date and pasted it on a display board. The following capsules were drawn by members of the Selective Service System's youth advisory council- one representative of each state, Guam, New York City, and the District of Columbia...
Comparing the study to a similar report on "General Education in a Free Society" in 1944, May said it was the first major re-examination of educational policy in 25 years and possibly equal in importance to curriculum revisions under Harvard Presidents Lowell and Eliot...
...first major recommendation as dean of the College, May released a seven-page memorandum to Harvard and Radcliffe House Masters, House committee chairmen, dean of Freshmen and the president of the Freshman Council urging them to initiate an "open-ended" discussion of curriculum policy...
...member of the Faculty, May is one of the first deans of the College in recent time to initiate academic changes. Dean Ford, however, said it was the role of the dean to "stick-up" for undergraduate curriculum and represent the interests of the College in the Faculty...
...Only the first subcommittee recommendation would set a precedent for Harvard-allying the University officially with the Defense Department for conducting social science research. Present University policy allows individual professors and students to accept any outside funding for their research; the second recommendation was in keeping with that policy...