Word: masters
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...Ackermann and Mahoney stand firm for hiring a "professional" City Manager--probably from outside of Cambridge--to run the City. At the other pole, Danehy and Vellucci loudly proclaim their intention to hire someone versed in the rough and tumble of Cambridge government for the job. Crane, with a master politician's instinct for the middle, stays silent, but is thought to strongly prefer a manager with a Cambridge background polished with professional training--someone like his old friend Curry, who was a headmaster of a local school before appointment to the manager's post...
That committee, chaired by Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Master of Dunster House, actually had ready early in the spring a series of recommendations very similar to the ones eventually adopted. But the Committee on Houses didn't like the slim single page memorandum that suggested the change and told the Committee to go back and prepare a more detailed report...
Harvard gave honorary degrees also to John H. Finley '25, retiring as Master of Eliot House; and two Law School alumni, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz and Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the United States Supreme Court...
John H. Finley has been Master of Eliot House for 26 years. His interest in his men of Eliot is legendary, as is his metaphorical approach to thinking and speaking. Finley was one of the principal authors of the landmark report "General Education in a Free Society...
Finley was honored for being "Scholar; House Master extraordinary; for nearly forty years the humanities at Harvard have been enlivened by his bouyant and vital spirit...