Word: point
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high point of the Harvard year came May 4 when Clifford won both sides of a doubleheader, 11-4 and 8-2, over Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. The victories put Harvard within striking range of the league leaders; but, as was so often the case this year, success proved elusive...
...bright point of the season arrived when Harvard trounced Yale, 8-1; but the Elis avenged the loss the following week at the New Englands by topping Harvard by one, lonely point...
EVEN MORE to the point, the administration of Derek Bok--the man who, more than anyone else, profited from the strike and the ensuing tumult that forced Pusey's early retirement--has shown a familiar contempt for the views of students and junior faculty. When Bok and his Corporation seek to ignore the ethical dimensions of corporate responsibility, when they refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of students' calls for a real hand in determining Harvard's investment policy, or when Bok and Dean Rosovsky smugly dismiss students' attempts to gain a real say in the formulation of their own curriculum...
...years later, the lessons of that spring could not be more to the point. A great deal has happened in the decade since that strike, and so it is easy enough to let the message of that time slip out of our minds. Most members of the current senior class were, after all, only in the sixth grade when then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered in the police; the memory of that day and its aftermath is for them, at best, a muddled one. And so it is convenient to believe those who proclaim that ours is a completely...
...point seemed valid to those who could see a similarity between Engelhard and Hitler's characters. Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School, did not buy the argument, however. Part of his job is to take into account the interests of alumni and donors to the K-School--in this case Engelhard's daughter, Sophie (MPA, '77)--and those of K-School students. He says protesters have shrouded the issue in rhetoric. "It was a triumph of symbolism over substance. It had no impact on anybody who lives in South Africa or who might have been...