Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Approval of the decision came clattering off printing presses around the country. The Montgomery, Alabama Observer called it "one more point scored for enlightenment in America," and the New York Post said the move "does Harvard honor." Syndicated columnist Joseph Brainin said that "the President of Harvard acted in the tradition of a great American institution of higher learning. He felt that the Hanfstaengl scholarship at Harvard would be a contradiction of all that great University stands for." In a somewhat different tone, the San Diego Union crowed that by "rejecting a scholarship from a Hitler henchman, Harvard hoists...
Should the University honor such a man by dedicating a library of public affairs to him? Dean Allison,k when pressed by the Kennedy School Black Students Caucus, admitted that there is in fact no contract requiring the naming of the library after Engelhard. If so, why not change the name? Must we seek funds from the honor every wealthy donor, no matter how immoral their source of wealth? Should we dedicate a library to a profiteer of slave labor? Are there simply no limits to such expediency? Should not the Harvard Corporation take heed of the words...
Throughout the controversy the administration has callously ignored the single most important party in this issue--those silenced by repression and premature death, those South African gold miners from whom Engelhard extracted his fortune. In the early 1970s students at Princeton forced their administration to honor alumnus Charles Engelhard. We must nor permit Engelhard's wealth to legitimize exploitation is South Africa. Honor should not be sold to the highest bidder. Vote yes on Question...
...turn back!" Their destination was T'ien An Men Square, site of what had up to now been the most extraordinary political happening in China's recent past. In April 1976, throngs had congregated there to protest the removal of wreaths left at Martyrs' Monument in honor of the late Premier Monument in honor of the late Premier Chou Enlai, who had rehabilitated Teng from the disgrace he suffered during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. The gathering soon ignited into violence, and hundreds of demonstrators were beaten and jailed. In the wake...
...consent of the Senate. Under a practice known quaintly as senatorial courtesy, the process has traditionally worked the other way around. A Senator can blackball a nominee to the federal bench in his home state simply by returning a "blue slip" to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate colleagues invariably honor the blue slip, so Presidents long ago learned to let Senators do the choosing...