Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honestly believe that Harvard depth can pull us through," McCurdy said, and pointed out that Dartmouth harriers have not beaten the Crimson since...
...says, a very active "man around the campus." He was business manager of the Yale Record, manager of the 150-lb. football team, head cheerleader, member of the varsity hockey and rugby teams, and captain of his College crew. Twenty years later, as Assistant Dean of the Harvard Law School, he is still the widely-ranging "man around the campus." Originator and director of the International Legal Studies program and co-ordinator of the World Tax Series, he has now undertaken a different type of activity--running as a C.C.A. candidate for Cambridge School Committee...
Bill Barnes entered the School Committee picture when Judson T. Shaplin, Associate Dean of the School of Education, decided not to seek re-election. Shaplin asked Barnes to replace him in the so-called "Harvard seat;" Barnes, who says he has always been interested in educational problems, accepted the bid and immediately received Civic Association support. Since then, he has spoken to almost every graduate and undergraduate political organization and has won a slew of endorsements that are encouraging but of doubtful value...
...Harvard seat" is a pleasant political myth, and Barnes realizes he must fight for his election. He has College, Law School and GSAS young Democrats, Republicans and liberals working for him, allegedly reaping all sorts of political experience. "It's a new form of patronage," Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. commented recently. "Bill gives people jobs before the election instead of after it." Schlesinger is only one of many University people to endorse Barnes' candidacy; even if there is no such thing as a "Harvard seat," Barnes is certainly the Harvard candidate...
...graduated at the age of twenty and moved on right away to Harvard Law School, where he managed to miss the first term exams because of an appendicitis attack. He joined the Air Force in mid-1941 and graduated from officers' training school four months after Pearl Harbor...