Word: partings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morison says Harvard's Overseers chose Cambridge as the home for their school in large part because of the "winning way" of the community's leader, Thomas Shepard. But six present-day civic leaders, including Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy sent a letter to the Board of Overseers this winter asking it to take some action to remedy about "the consistent poor judgment and insensitivity" of Harvard officials in their dealings with the city...
...increasing political sophistication of Cambridge officials caused part of the transformation in city-Harvard relations: "They still think Cambridge is run by political hacks and they snicker behind our backs; they are unaware of the sophistication that has developed on the Cambridge City Council over the last decade," says City Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser...
President Bok himself maintains that "the way in which a university addresses these questions and the answers that it gives are inescapably part of the moral education it imparts to students." If what he says is true, then the President's real message to the students of Harvard is that small acts of daring are, at times like this, futile. When he tells us that we are "naive" and "must all be linked in indirect and innumerable ways to the wrongs of the world--through the goods we buy, the taxes we pay, the services we use, the investments...
Kennedy School of Government officials plan to release soon the names of candidates for two newly-created professorships, including one which is the first part of a plan to establish a criminal justice center at the school...
Funding for the new chairs comes from $16 million the K-School raised as part of a $25 million fund drive...