Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the speech, the President and his wife gamely descended into a German bunker, then flew to the American cemetery above Omaha Beach. Walking alone arm in arm among the geometrically perfect rows of graves, they paid silent homage to the American dead. At the grave of an unknown soldier...
Then, before 2,000 people at the Omaha Beach memorial, the President read from a letter sent to him by Lisa Zanatta Henn, 28, of Millbrae, Calif. Many years ago, Peter Robert Zanatta of the 37th Engineer Combat Battalion had told his little girl that he would one day return...
But for all the talk of "responsibility without comensurate authority" and administrative impotence, the presidents agreed that they retain a degree of influence over the university. "What you can do [as a college president]." Graves said, "is keep the institution in touch with itself." Two weeks into his administration. Graves...
On several occasions, Graves said he risked losing his office on matters of principle. "The college president has very little real authority," he concluded, "but he has all he needs." Ultimately, however, scant the "real" authority presidents exercise, they possess more prominence and more authority than any single person on...
And as Graves said, "A college president needs to remind himself every morning that he is just somebody else's predecessor."