Word: pattersons
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...significantly diminished by such academic brush fires. Notre Dame's Hesburgh attributes Harvard's continuing eminence in part to the strength of Bok's reign. "He certainly has been critical of his own institution," says Hesburgh, "which you can afford to be when you're that good." Mary Patterson McPherson, president of Bryn Mawr, deplores the 1- to-20 ratio of women on Harvard's tenured faculty after a decade of coeducation ("Just deciding to educate girls ain't coeducation in my view," she snaps). Nevertheless, she admires Bok's administrative style. "He's managed to give real leadership...
...they later realized that they had not had all of the opportunities as the male undergraduates, most of them took their status at Radcliffe for granted. "I didn't feel like a second-class citizen, but I think I was," says Mary Catherine Bateson '61. Virginia Rogers Patterson '61, who lives in Philadelphia and has raised five children, agrees: "We were used to being second string...
Realizing that Canadians are sometimes thought to lack a sense of humor, the Expo planners have tried to counter that dour image by deploying strolling performers, robot minstrels and pockets of whimsy. "We wanted to be sure that people were entertained," says Jim Patterson, spokesman for the Canada pavilion. On a nice day there are almost certain to be gobs of children cavorting in a playground sea of plastic orange balls or in UFO H20, a humorous collection of splashing fountains made to look like alien space objects. The Land Plaza, with everything from a Singapore trishaw and a Philippine...
...Several rallies of hundreds of students, a one day blockade of the Office of the Harvard Corporation, and much education on South Africa and divestment has taken place. Most importantly, the Open University has been the center of a community of thought and discussion with professors such as Orlando Patterson, Stanley Hoffman, T.J. Clarke, and Diana Eck giving special public lectures, and section leaders in History, Philosophy, English. Hundreds of students and many supporters of divestiture have come to recognize themselves as activists...
...lightweights come into the Sprints seeded fourth, after a disappointing third-place finish at the H-Y-P Regatta two weeks ago, and have been doing some seat-shuffling of their own. Junior Larry Meyer will move up from the six-position to stroke the lights, replacing sophomore Tom Patterson, who moves to the junior varsity. Sophomore Mike Horvath has made the jump from the six-seat of the JV to that same position in the varsity eight...