Word: hersey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ensured that interhouse dining at Radcliffe would indeed be free, published an informative booklet on the draft, began to formalize student contacts with the Overseers Visiting Committees, consulted with the Coop to improve the textbook department, and reported on Yale's experience with a non-faculty master (John Hersey). The Council also conducted a poll of student opinion on the House assignment system, out of which emerged a detailed and intelligent proposal for reform--which the Administration inexplicably ignored...
...will not," Hersey continued, "be swept up in the jealousies and power struggles of the faculty. He can be, he has to be--for he has nothing to lose otherwise but his self-respect--a champion of innovation and experimentation...
...unanimously approved the policy report at a meeting Monday night. Author John Hersey's appointment last spring as Master of Pierson College at Yale was the focal point of the report. Daniel C. Goldfarb Jr. '66, president of the HUC, and Steve W. Simpson '66, chairman of the Dunster House Committee, discussed the appointment with Yale students, administrators, faculty members, and Hersey himself...
Proponents of the plan say there has been no decrease in student-faculty contact at Pierson College. Assistants of Kingman Brewster, President of Yale, did not feel the Hersey appointment will affect faculty acceptance of masterships in the future...
...report to the Administration includes excerpts from Hersey's address at his installation as Master. Hersey said the non-academic man in the academic world "has no reason to hide his astonishment at the inertias of a great University. He can afford the easy stead-fastness of one who does not want or need anything from the institution, least of all those terrifying velvet handcuffs known as tenure...