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Yet even this change was not enough to mollify some critics who charged that the Board remained too insular. "In the days when Eliot was the president of Harvard, you had a very homogenous group," says Boston Federal District Court Judge William G. Young '62, a longtime overseer observer currently...
The prevalence of Brahmins on the overseers grew into a matter of great concern in the 1880's. The Harvard Club of New York led a long and successful campaign to place a member on the ballot--the first to come from outside metropolitan Boston. Such nominations, few as they...
Perhaps the most prescient battle over honorary degrees occurred when overseer John Quincy Adams (1787) refused to attend an honorary degree ceremony conferring the coveted parchment on his political enemy Andrew Jackson, who Adams called "a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and could hardly spell his...
Butler and fellow overseer Franklin D. Raines '71 two months ago criticized the divestment slate for politicizing the election, charging that the divestment candidates have overspent on campaigning.
In the past, new Corporation appointments haveoften been drawn from former overseer. BothHeiskell and Colman M. Mockler served as Presidentof the Overseers prior to their service on theCorporation