Word: franklins
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...Benjamin Franklin once said, “You may delay, but time will not”—words that must sting Undergraduate Council (UC) members ensnared in an 11th hour restructuring quagmire.As early as last November’s UC elections, we knew that the expected creation of an independent social programming board would endanger the existence and role of the Campus Life Committee (CLC). The issue, however, was repeatedly dismissed by the UC. And now that the College Events Board (CEB) has rendered the CLC obsolete, the series of emergency council meetings held during reading period...
After the dust had settled on Franklin Field in Pennsylvania on Sunday, the Harvard women had taken seven and the men eighth at the outdoor Heptagonals Championships. The Cornell men and women won the Ivy League with 152.5 and 129 points, respectively. The Crimson men finished the last day of the meet with 17, while the women had 64.50. The latter had a very successful day on Sunday, with two athletes emerging as Heptagonals champions. Captain Laura Maludzinski took home her second consecutive Heptagonals crown in the 1500 meter run with a dramatic finish. She beat out Nyam Kagwima...
Professors Howard E. Gardner ’65, Stephen Owen, and Theda Skocpol have joined founding fathers, academic bigwigs, and current Harvard scholars as newly elected members of the American Philosophical Society (APS). Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 for “promoting useful knowledge,” the APS is the oldest learned society in America...
...University kicked him out entirely. In 1939, President James Bryant Conant ’14 opted not to renew his contract—a decision that, Parker said, appears to have been politically motivated. Galbraith supported the New Deal at a time when Harvard administrators were wary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, even though he was one of Harvard?...
...advised five Democratic presidents—Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, John F. Kennedy ’40, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton. Kennedy named him ambassador to India...