Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morison says Harvard's Overseers chose Cambridge as the home for their school in large part because of the "winning way" of the community's leader, Thomas Shepard. But six present-day civic leaders, including Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy sent a letter to the Board of Overseers this winter asking it to take some action to remedy about "the consistent poor judgment and insensitivity" of Harvard officials in their dealings with the city...
Whatever the reason, Harvard's decision to contest the overlay "broke the camel's back," Bernie Flynn, administrative assistant to Danehy, said later. Within a week, the letter to the Board of Overseers decrying the "consistent poor judgment and insensitivity" of Harvard was signed and mailed out. Two weeks later, the City Council decided after heated debate to contest the overlay ruling. "As of now, the overlay is in effect with six votes backing it," City Manager Sullivan said. A court challenge to the seventh vote provision began two weeks...
...Faculty letter urging withdrawal is as significant for what it represents within the Harvard community as for what it attempts to promote in South Africa. The letter articulates a clear dissatisfaction with the Corporation's current investment policy. It represents a willingness of large numbers of Faculty members to compromise their opinions of what may be the best investment policy for the sake of most effectively showing their disenchantment with the Corporation's current policy. And it shows their desire to establish a clear, coherent and conscionable policy that takes into account more than just the fate of Harvard...
...Harvard handles its investments and with its highly respected position both inside and outside the University, concerned Faculty are perfectly placed to augment the efforts of student activists to force change in Corporation policy. Outside of Harvard, the core of Faculty members that drafted the open letter plans to discuss corporate withdrawal with House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.), other congressional leaders and directors of large corporations operating in South Africa...
...involve" themselves at some level in tutorials, perhaps nothing more than reviewing a teaching fellow's tutorial reading list and "occasionally" sitting in on his tutorials if the tutor has no objections, Higonnet says. "Nobody," Higonnet stressed, "will be made to teach a tutorial." Higonnet sent out a letter to departmental professors several weeks ago, urging them to participate in the tutorial program. Several responded, expressing support for the plan, but only two demonstrated that support by offering to teach tutorials...