Word: oldest
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...think Harvard deserves a little more recognition for being the oldest university in the country...
...Postal Service has honored some of the newer schools before, now it's time that if honored the oldest," said Jay Murley '57, president of the Harvard Club of Orange County, Calif, who began campaigning for the stamp earlier this year...
Chernenko was passed over once for his nation's highest office and would probably have been relegated to a footnote in Soviet history books had Andropov not died after only 15 months in office. The Old Guard in the Kremlin turned to Chernenko, the oldest man ever to become party leader, to maintain the power balance in the leadership until a younger generation was ready to take over. Within two months of assuming power, Chernenko secured the additional titles of President and chairman of the Defense Council. They carried more honor than substance: Chernenko was said to defer to Foreign...
Jasinski was co-editor of the oldest and most famous review of French literary history. "Revue d'Histoire litteraire de la France," from...
America is awakening to its complicity in the crime which is apartheid. It would be a travesty if Harvard, America's oldest and most prestigious university, continued to sleep. Harvard must go beyond tokenism; it must reject passivity. The bloodshed at Sharpeville, Crossroads and Soweto is too high a price to pay for an education. Harvard and other universities must cut their ties to South Africa; they must put people ahead of profit, that which is right ahead of that which is convenient. I join the call for total divestiture...