Word: hand
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Inclement weather hampered the commencement exercises. As Dean Kathleen O. Elliott reached the letter "m" in the process of calling out each girl's name, the rain began to fall. Mrs. Bunting, who had been shaking each girl's hand and giving her her diploma, asked the class of '68 to decide "democratically" whether to continue the service outdoors in the Radcliffe Yard, or move into the gymnasium. The black-capped girls voted overwhelmingly to continue outdoors in the rain...
...Student-Faculty Advisory Committee is a unique Harvard institution. It is a joint body which meets regularly and whose student members, at least, have been elected by their fellow students. This year's Faculty representatives, on the other hand, were directly appointed by President Pusey--but the membership seemed to reflect the entire range of Faculty opinion. In this sense then, the SFAC could well be the prototype for a genuine "parliamentary" body at Harvard--and as such a welcome addition to the already fluid communications network between groups that exists at the University...
...much attention the President to the College's problems rather than to those of the University or the world. College-oriented presidents like Abbott Lawrence Lowell, particularly if on poor terms with an inherited dean, have tended to restrict the dean's authority. James Bryant Conant, on the other hand, after a decade as president, decided he was not so interested in the College; he virtually gave Dean Paul Buck a free hand in all University matters...
...with speaking tours. The appointment of McGeorge Bundy as dean--a candidate apparently urged upon Pusey by the outgoing Buck--made it difficult for the new president to influence College matters. Fund drives and other external enterprises, suited primarily to presidential attention, also kept Pusey form taking a close hand in the College...
STUDENT activists sometimes think Ford is either inconsistent, or simply shrewd and calculating: on the one hand, he is generally receptive to thoughtful student suggestions for educational changes; but at the same time he objects to giving students representation on committees when it would serve no purpose. "If students' ideas are relevant to a committee's studies," Ford says, "I suppose they should be invited to sit with the group and discuss the issues." But he goes no further. The Faculty, not students, hold the delegated authority of the Corporation, Food believes. During the squabbles over election procedure...