Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House Assignment Committee--a standing committee of the Faculty--set to work. "Our first aim is to please the students," Watson said, "but we have to stay within certain limits." Each House, for example, has a rank list quota to determine the minimum number of students from each academic "group" the House must admit...
...fact that a group of students and political novices could defeat some of Cambridge's more experienced politicians is not as impressive, however, as the manner in which they did it. Without political allegiances, City Council backing, or any ties whatsoever, the students gathered a slate that was ideally balanced with cross-ideological and multi-generational strands. It contained veterans and anti-war liberals, students and older adults, housewives and city workers, Irish and more Irish. "Tell me now, just what could we do against that collection?" a member of the losing slate said after the votes had been tallied...
...doubt the large turnout of McCarthy supporters indirectly aided the Brennan group. But it was probably their freshness that decisively influenced the voters. "The ward elections throughout Cambridge illustrated a widespread desire for new faces," observed Herbert F. Mattson, a popular new state Democratic committeeman who just won his position by a 4-1 margin. According to Mattson, the city and ward committees are traditionally do-nothing and lackadasical, and the election results were a reaction to this practice...
...Cambridge has 11 wards). This year the major changes occurred in Wards 1, 5, 9, 10, and 11. In Ward 1, Democratic City Committee Chairman Edward Stewart Jr. topped the balloting, but an opposing slate gained majority control of the Ward Committee. An insurgent group swamped the incumbents in Ward 5. The victors included James Washington Jr., a semi-professional basketball player and social worker who spoke for the City's black community before the city Council last Thursday and last night. Among the casualties on the opposing slate were independent School Committeeman Daniel J. Clinton and City Purchasing Agent...
...significant are ward committees anyway? Not very. The committees, which have four-year terms, do send delegates to the state Democratic convention in 1970. (Brennan's group in Ward 9, for example, will probably send three delegates to the convention in 1970 based on the ward's democratic voting totals in the last guber-natorial contest). Otherwise, the committees have little legal force except deciding some minor patronage jobs: they nominate polling place officers to the City Election Commissioners...