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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Bok would not confirm the Globe report but said he knew Tutu as "someone of very deep convictions and great personal courage...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Black South African Activist Will Receive Honorary Degree | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Clutching "Great Comeback of '54" wastebaskets and wearing floppy white sunhats, 557 members of the Class of '54, their wives and children registered for their 25th Reunion yesterday...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Class of '54 Meets For 25th Reunion | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Back in April when the Senior Class Committee voted unanimously to send out a letter publicizing the newly-created Stephen Biko Memorial Fund, there was great hope that the Fund would succeed in bringing attention to an issue of vital concern to Harvard seniors and would directly assist the victims of South Africa's apartheid system. Though no one at the time viewed the Fund in and of itself as an adequate response to the challenge put forward by the Harvard Corporation's investment policy, everyone agreed that it would be a step in the right direction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Biko Fund | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...with subsidiaries in Nazi Germany. Would it have adopted an investment policy similar to the one it now owns up to in South Africa and offered three or four scholarships to German-Jewish students to come to Harvard? That is a question that perhaps no one can answer with great certainty, but the present South Africa stockholding policy casts a dark fearful shadow over the answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Biko Fund | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...often she is sincere, direct, touching, with only a trace of the sentimentality of the German romantics she quotes so often. Evil is not in her world, or in men, but in their confluence; the pain and sleepless nights are not in women, or in men, but in their great need for each other. The waltz, she cautions us, is not as easy as it looks, and clumsiness is painful. But to dance like bears, off the beat, around and around--the necessary dance of men and women--is what Elizabeth Hardwick writes about so gracefully and so well. Sleepless...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: The Company She Kept | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

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