Word: ginn
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...There is a tarnish on the Veritas today. The good name of the University is being used to disadvantage," Edwin Ginn '18, a Boston tinancier, charged in 1956 when he resigned as the Class of 1918's representative to the Harvard Fund Council. Ginn, protesting the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James Lecturer, called the famous scientist "a known Communist sympathizer and confessed liar in a matter of espionage." Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) also challenged then-President Nathan M. Pusey's appointment of Oppenheimer, whom McCarthy considered a "security risk...
...trend towards similar career goals seems to be continuing in the Class of '81, Robert J. Ginn, director of OCS-OCL, said yesterday. This spring, 21 per cent of the men and 20 per cent of women is the senior class signed up for interviews with business recruiters visiting campus...