Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only woman in the group is Helen H. Gilbert '36, former president of the Board of Overseers, who received a Doctor of Laws citation...
Throughout her association with the University, Gilbert has remained a staunch supporter of women's education. A member of the Radcliffe Class of '36, she served as the school's acting president from 1964 to 1965, and later became the first woman ever elected president of the Board of Overseers--the larger of the University's two governing boards. Although she retired from that position in 1975, she has remained active on a number of visiting committees, and remains a Radcliffe trustee, which she has been since...
...Gilbert's citation reads: A woman of independent mind and great good humor, a loyal daughter of Radcliffe whose capricious heart goes out to Harvard...
Only when one of Schorer's characters desperately tries to escape his all too neatly molded life in an original way does his story become interesting. In "Don't Take Me for Granted," Gilbert Miles finds a release from his dull, unaccomplished life in a wild imitation of solitary madness...
...character has dared to break the rules governing his life. He pays no more attention to the obligations which bind him to the past or to the future, but experiences the pleasure of the moment for its own sake. Though Gilbert's solution may be nothing but a temporary escape from reality, the ecstatic plunge into an imaginary world is brave because it threatens to destroy his meticulously pieced-together life...