Word: formers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student concentrators said last week they doubted the committee would strengthen the department. "I'm skeptical--let me see the results. They've set up committees before," Daniel Robinson '79, a former concentrator, said...
GERALD FORD was nothing more or less than a good-natured lunk, the political equivalent of his friend Joe Garagiola. Lyndon Johnson ventured that Ford played football without a helmet; that jab came to sum up the former Michigan center, who actually played with his helmet, and very well, too--oddly enough, the notoriously clumsy Ford was probably the best athlete of any President of the 20th century. But still a big lunk: that Nixon would make Ford President, after all his yammering about respect for the office, serves as a good index of how far gone that old carpetbagger...
Three years ago, the union had reason for concern. Former police chief David L. Gorski put a freeze on hiring for the three years he was at Harvard, an action the union interpreted as an administration attempt to reduce the size of the police force through attrition. Though the threat of a reduction in the size of uniformed police officers still remains, the administration has taken steps to instill confidence in the force...
...everyone is taking this policy lying down. Many faculty members and administrators continue to debate the question of art courses for credit. While there is still considerable opposition, many hope that the arrival of Robert S. Brustein, former director of the Yale Drama school and future director of Harvard's Loeb theater, will change the traditional doctrine that performing arts have no part in liberal arts education at Harvard...
...everybody is so sure the drama department will be all there this year, however Samuel J. Bloomfield '79, former secretary of the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club (HRDC) believes this year will be one of transition while old staff members who resigned when Brustein was hired are busy looking for new jobs. "In theory Chapman (professor of English who heads the drama department but will be leaving that post next year) is running the Loeb, but in reality this year the Leob will be a totally student-oriented place--no staff and very little professionalism," Bloomfield says...