Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cold war was at its height. A young John F. Kennedy '40 was sworn in as president, and Alan Sheppard became the first American to enter space. The Peace Corps-sent its first troops overseas. the threat of nuclear war hung precariously over the globe. At Harvard, more than 4000 students rioted to protest a decision by then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 to print diplomas for the Class of '61 in English rather than in Latin...
...loans and had used $2000 in College "discretionary funds" to pay off debts and expenses incurred by Harvard Delivery News Service (HDNS) partly became of alleged embezzlement by the former manager of HDNS, which was, until spring semester, responsible for campus delivery of The Boston Globe and The New York Times. The College eventually bailed out and then dissolved HDNS, while Dean Fox conducted an investigation of official use of "discretionary funds...
...everyone is so grateful; after Schatz's name appeared in a Boston Globe article on gays at Harvard, he received an anonymous letter threatening his life and attacking homosexuality in bitter and violent language. Schatz was shaken, but only temporarily: "I also got two fan letters this week; one death threat to two fan letters; that's not a bad record," he says...
...formal invitation, but Schmidt said last week that that was not the case. A week after the Kennedy School's abortive efforts had been quashed, the whole matter burst into the open. Under the headline, "Harvard to its Kennedy School: Please, no Reagan at graduation," The Boston Globe reported that Harvard had "discouraged" an invitation to the president. The story was picked up nationwide, and officials feared that the coverage endangered Harvard's relations with the new administration. Smith was particularly upset. "The whole thing got blown out of proportion by the Globe," Smith said. "We were very concerned...
...April 14 Globe article about the K-School's "informal" inquiries about the President, focused attention on the K-School's practice of inviting its own commencement speakers. Harvard graduate schools technically are not allowed to invite their own speakers...