Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John W. Gardner, L.H.D., chairman, Common Cause and former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
Helen Louise Gardner, Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford University known for her studies of the Metaphysical poets, received the degree of Doctor of Letters, as did Paton and Senghor...
There was always the chance that the choice of a new president could turn out to be yet another battle-ground or perhaps a new kind of peace table. Over the summer, when the news leaked out that John Gardner and S. I. Hayakawa led the tally of suggestions from the Spring letters of inquiry, the ballot-box psychology started creeping in, but was quickly squelched by long rounds of meetings and interviews between Corporation members and student-faculty groups. Corporation members assured the groups that the search would be more than a popularity poll among letter writing alumni...
...list of 69) were members of the Harvard faculty. And so the questions quietly made the rounds of presidential discussions and not surprisingly sobered many of the most vehement student and Faculty rebels into quiescence. By December, the University talked of making its choice not between Hayawaka and Gardner, but John T. Dunlop, Dean of the Faculty, and Bok-a choice which, since Bok and Dunlop had similar backgrounds in administration and labor law (they co-authored a book), was like choosing flavors between Chocolate and Chocolate Chip...
...Gardner is the author of The Art of T. S. Eliot and The Divine Poems of John Donne. She has been honored by Queen Elidabeth with the title of "Dame" - the women's equivalent of knighthood...