Word: nickerson
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...were considered but not picked goes back to the Committee on Honorary Degrees for a second look. The committee is made up of four respected senior faculty members, two Overseers and three Corporation members. The head of the committee for the last four years has been Albert L. Nickerson '33, a Corporation member...
...give eight degrees a year, or sometimes more, but we always like to hold it below eleven or twelve," Nickerson says. "But that's a subjective figure; there are so many interesting people in the world. So every year we have a fat list of holdovers that we consider again...
...Nickerson vehemently denies that the committee chooses degree recipients in line with predetermined numbers of women, minority members or alumni. "We have no quotas," he says. "We would like a balance, but resist formula...
Albert L. Nickerson '33, a subcommittee member and former Mobil chairman, did not vote on the Mobil resolution. George F. Bennett '33, the University's treasurer, favored voting Harvard's stock against the resolution...
Besides Bennett and Calkins, the Corporation committee includes Albert L. Nickerson '33 and Charles P. Slichter '45, both Corporation Fellows...