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Martha C. Lyman, director of financial aid, said yesterday search services have listed in the past the names of specific Harvard funds. This has mistakenly led "students to believe they didn't need to be admitted to get money, could get money even if they didn't need it, and could apply directly to Harvard for money from a specific fund," she added...
...portents of intellectual ill-health pour from the 192 pages of The Humanities in American Life (University of California Press; $12.50). The book will be issued this week by a 32-member commission funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and chaired by the foundation's new president, Richard W. Lyman. The commissioners (a dean's list of scholars, including the presidents of Yale, Smith, Chicago and Tulane) regard the humanities as more than some knowledge about language, history, art and philosophy. They credit the humanities with helping people make critical judgments about ethics and social policy, understand diverse cultures...
Jordan continued to work for Radcliffe, as assistant dean, acting dean and then as dean for academic affairs. "She was an extraordinary woman, very strong and with a brilliant mind," Susan Story Lyman, former trustee of Radcliffe, said yesterday...
...Lyman's citation reads: Proudly we greet this son of Harvard, Stanford's leader in troubled times, spokesman for all of higher education, ever alert to new paths toward academic excellence and high achievement...
Richard Wall Lyman, outgoing president of Stanford University--Doctor of Laws...