Word: giving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week. At Cornell, guns were used for the first time in the seizure of a building. At Harvard, the faculty gave Negro students a voice in selection of black studies professor ... the faculty, under pressure from black students broke with one of the basic traditional principles. It voted to give students a major voice--six undergraduates to seven professors--in the selection of teachers for the new Afro-American Studies Department." The article goes on to suggest that the resolution was "fuzzy", and that the faculty was abrogating its responsibilities...
...line with the Rosovsky Committee report, which was adopted by the faculty on February 11, and widely hailed in the Times and elsewhere, a search committee to help recruit faculty was set up on March 5, consisting of three faculty members and three black students. This does not give them power to appoint tenure professors, however. By long-standing Harvard practice, tenure appointments to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are made by the President and Fellows only after detailed consideration and approval by an ad hoc committee to study the merits of each proposed tenure appointee. Traditionally...
...Carnegie and Ford Foundations. The director of the office of Behavioral Research of the Air Force subsequently approached me in my then capacity as Director of the Institute of International Studies at Berkeley, together with the Director of the Survey Research Center at Berkeley, with the offer to give the two research centers a so-called research feasibility grant, to stimulate comparative studies on problems of development. His research office exists to support unclassified basic research in the social sciences. We accepted this grant which was used to support a variety of studies by Berkeley faculty members, as well...
Which one of us. Nate, would not give his eyeteeth to leave the hurley-burley of megalopolis for such an idyllic paradise? I know I would. Incidentally, I shall be absent from Cambridge the next few weeks as pressing business summons me to Johannesburg. yrs very truly, Henry Kissinger April...
...standing under the miss from baltimore. "you duck-egg!" the tommygunner burst out, "how can you talk of ORDER! a point of order! a point of order! mr. share-man, when will you allow me one poise of ardor? one piece of order? one, please, of otherness. GIVE ME A CHANTS!? -- . . . all this and more is what Billy the Surf Bum saw in the now-opened capsule on the end of the dart he was holding in the soon-to-be-empty dating bar in which he (believe it or not) was still standing in fresno beach california, even...