Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Predictably enough, the college president emphasized their own lack of authority. "A college president," said Thomas Graves, president of the College of William and Mary, "has responsibility without commensurate power."
Waving the bylaws of William and Mary that charge him with direction of the operation of the college, supervision of the work of the faculty, and internal discipline of students, Graves said that invoking such power routinely would not let him last even two weeks.
On one level, the complaints--often raised to state-of-the-art whining as in Graves' characterization of "one crisis after another being a president without authority"--reflect the implicit ambivalence of the presidents themselves. Alberta Arthurs, former president of Chatham college, correctly observes. "We tend to teach our best...
Ordinary Americans and Englishmen and Canadians and others, now in late middle age, will come as well. They will wander over the pastoral killing ground. They will search in the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer for the graves of friends they fought beside. They will think of themselves singing as...
The British cemeteries seem cozier, with rows of flowers and bushes along the lines of gravestones. Farther inland at Orglandes, the German cemetery is resolutely austere; its 10,152 graves are marked with blunt crosses of lavender-flecked gray granite. Few tourists come to the German cemetery, but those who...