Word: giamatti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard-Yale game its annual place of ambiguity in college football lore. Not an issue (though a bunch of clench-fisted students shouting "Harvard Out Now" when the Crimson is fourth and ten at its own one yard line might be interesting). Not even a diversion (A. Bartlett Giamatti stricken with salmonella poisoning in the third quarter? Nah, too messy...
Brustein will leave Yale next year, because Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti, in a controversial decision last year, did not renew Brustein's contract...
Yale University inaugurated A. Barlett Giamatti on October 14 as its nineteenth president. The following are excerpts from his inaugural address delivered to Yale alumni and representatives of other colleges and universities...
...Giamatti answers the questions on South Africa with his usual eloquence, saying he wants to be asked questions, but thinks the corporation report speaks best for itself. The conversation stagnates. He fails to discuss specific solutions...
...frustrating and comforting because he does have a firmly constructed approach--perhaps the solutions will come later. He has placed no time limits on how long he would like to be president, and under his guidance Yale seems to have the opportunity to get back on its feet. How Giamatti will manage to exploit his academic expertise is yet another question. He plans to return to the classroom in the near future, time permitting, but this tradeoff seems to be one of his most agonizing problems. It is not a purely selfish motivation--his students are his primary concern...