Word: maye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...May did not join the Harvard coterie until 1954. He was born with a flat twang accent in 1928 in Fort Worth and worked through an M. A. at U. C. L. A. on a Native Son of the Golden West fellowship. With a new doctorate he spent the Korean War as an historian for the Joints Chiefs of Staff. In 1954 he came to Harvard as an instructor and has wandered up the academic hierarchy to full professor...
There is said to be a clique of Kennedy men in Cambridge, a semi-official policy group waiting out of power at the Institute. "A very small crowd of JFK operator types getting ready to move back into government," one student describes them. Whatever the proper description. May is in the group. He joined Kennedy's Academic Advisory Council in 1963 and until this summer headed a faculty seminar in the Institute of Politics on the art and practice of bureaucracy. Since the summer he has resigned as director of the student seminar program, but he remains an untitled officer...
...appointment as Dean of Harvard College May undoubtedly realizes that he will have to deal again with unrest over Harvard's relationship to government policy. So far May has acted quietly to bridge feelings between the Faculty and administration and to aid curriculum reform. He says that this function is mediation, not advocacy. He is a diplomatic historian, cautious in his sentences, cradling a thin-stemmed pipe several seconds before answering any question. Small tie-knot, two-button grey suit and flat-top haircut: unobtrusive except that he seems to neigh when he smiles...
...May will probably be most effective in healing division in the Faculty. He is staying clear of any affiliation with the conservative caucus now that he is Dean. Since his appointment he has gone to only one meeting of the conservatives ("with the full knowledge of the other side") in order to discuss possible agreement on the Heimert discipline proposal. He plans to meet with Walzer and the liberals soon...
...attempt at unity May will not acknowledge any significant breach between Faculty and the administration, even over the touchy issue of Faculty discipline. It makes no difference, May says whether or not two Corporation members sit on a Faculty discipline committee. "All proposals for discipline have to go to the Corporation for approval anyway. If two Corporation members were present only in a non-voting capacity and didn't agree with the findings, there's not much chance it would pass anyhow...