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...ordinary circumstances, courts are extremely reluctant to overturn a disciplinary decision from a University," said Roderick MacLeish Jr, a Boston lawyer who has advised 12 College students on cases before the administrative board...
...think that the University should expelthem," says Roderick Macleish Jr., an attorney whohas advised 12 students at the College who wentbefore the Ad Board. "That person no longerdeserves to be part of the Harvard community...
...wish I remembered more of what F.O. Matthessen had to say in his lectures, and Archibald Macleish's stories about Hemingway in Paris as we sat in his Widener office with the spring sun streaming through the window, but I remember the teepee swaying, and the rabbit on the Great Hall table and the tuba player from the Boston Pops who played solo at a cocktail party we gave in Eliot B-42. The tuba player said he'd never been asked to do such a thing before--to play alone at a cocktail party, and he truly enjoyed...
...great part of Harvard's allure lies in such history. As former Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Archibald MacLeish wrote in 1976, "When we think now of the greatness of the University we think first of the dead," the long-gone strangers as well as the beloved friends. As a result of these people's contributions to Harvard's longevity and national importance, decisions made here carry weight far beyond their importance to the present institution. Administrators and professors know that they have an obligation to the thinkers who came before them and to those who will come after...
...Boylston professorship which Heaney will vacate is one of the University's oldest and most distinguished chairs. The position was first occupied by John Quincy Adams in the early 1800s, and was later held by poets Archibald MacLeish and Robert Fitzgerald...