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Died. Torkild Rieber, 86, chairman of Texaco from 1935 to 1940, and overseer of one of the greatest engineering feats in oil-industry history; in Manhattan. Shortly after becoming boss, Rieber bought the idle Barco oilfields, 1,200,000 acres deep in the jungles of Colombia, and during three years...
But the reports and the actions of the Overseers do affect undergraduates and younger alumni. The most significant example of this is the Overseer's role in selecting a new president of Harvard. Especially in view of events on other campuses this spring, it would be most undesirable for Harvard...
Student-Faculty representation on the Overseers could hardly lead to substantial debate or lend the body's collective prestige to broad issues. It is conceivable that a large number of student and Faculty members of the Board could increase Overseer responsibility for Faculty appointments, but, except in the case of...
It is exactly on such a body that everyone connected with his University should have a voice and an interest. Students, Faculty members, and others holding Corporation appointments should be eligible for election to the Board of Overseers, and should be eligible to vote in an Overseer's election.
There remains the question of why students bother to seek representation on the Overseers. If the ultimate goal is greater student power, there are more accessible and more important sources of authority in dean's committees and in departmental groups where influence my be pursued for definite goals. The argument...