Word: kent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coach Harry Parker termed the heavyweight showing a "good performance in a traditionally low-key affair," as a pair stroked by Ed Woodhouse followed by his former Kent schoolmate Mike Beach placed fourth behind crows from Dartmouth, Cornell and Mercantile Rowing Club...
...frequently works in a collarless sports shirt; he teaches a freshman calculus course; and he sets aside time every week for students to come in without any appointment and talk. When the superconservative Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader called the new president a "lemon" (because he canceled classes during the Kent State upheaval) Kemeny good-naturedly tossed out lemons at a subsequent mass meeting of students, many of whom were wearing polo shirts painted with bright yellow lemons. Kemeny can also be blunt. A delegation of professors once protested against his bringing his wife Jean to faculty meetings. "Go to hell...
Wald's Speech entitled. "To Re-possess America," was given at Kent State Last May to initiate the Lectureship for Peaceful Change series established there in recognition of the four students who were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen...
Wald said yesterday that when he was contacted by Kent State to give the Series' first lecture, he regarded it "not as an invitation but as an order." He said the speech was "one reason for giving up" an offer to spend the month of May in Japan as a visiting professor...
...Lectureship in Peaceful Change was set up last year "to bring a scholar, or other recognized person, in the movement for human justice" to Kent State annually on the anniversary of the Kent State killings...