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Dana M. Cotton, secretary of the Graduate School of Education and Director of Placement, takes over today as acting dean of the Ed School during Dean Theodore Sizer's seven-month sabbatical...
Alumni active in admissions, and secondary school college-placement officials, confirmed yesterday that they knew of no attempt by Harvard to screen out radicals. A dean at an Eastern prep school said, "Harvard is one of the most civilized of all the colleges we deal with in this respect." And a spokesman for a small Midwestern school said, "We have had less trouble about politics from Harvard than from any of the others...
Harrick Macomber, retired director of studies at Exeter, said yesterday, "I would say Harvard has taken some of our prime troublemakers in recent years." A still-active placement officer at an equally prestigious school admitted, "If we had a guy here who was wildly leftist, burning down buildings and waving flags, we wouldn't think too highly of him ourselves. We wouldn't write favorable recommendations, and he wouldn't get into Harvard...
Control of the agenda is only the beginning of the chairman's powers. He rewards his supporters and punishes those who vote against him by granting or withholding favors. He can even reward or punish their constituents by influencing the allocation of federal grants and the placement of installations. Since charity begins at home, he can almost always point to the many benefits seniority has brought his own district...
Susanne S. Paul, a 1961 graduate of a now defunct Business School program for women, charged the club and its director of placement Carl R. Boll with discrimination after Boll refused to admit her to an October 22 job-counseling session...