Word: fording
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...None of the eminent people would come to Harvard under the atmosphere of student domination," says Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31, who at the time was asked to help recruit faculty for the department...
...buildings [of Harvard] will remain, but the soul will be gone," said then-Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford, as the students ejected him and the other deans from their University Hall offices in protest over Harvard's continued ties with the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and its expansion in the city...
...there were changes. ROTC was voted off campus by the faculty, an Afro-American Studies Department was voted in. Dean Ford, sidelined by a stroke one week after the takeover, eventually resigned his position. So did Dean of the College Fred Glimp...
...whole movement of these recent decades has been to make the [faculty] community more responsive to student needs," says Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31. "That was expedited by the events...
...height of the disputes in the spring of 1969, faculty meetings were held almost daily, with then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 and then-Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford presiding. For the first time, student visitors were allowed after the takeover, and the faculty voted to allow WHRB broadcasts of their highly charged sessions...