Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jones also called upon the new alumnae to help pioneer "in the solution of the human, intellectual, and moral problems of the over-developed society, notably our own." This, he stated, is the "task of American leadership" in the contemporary "Post-Modern...
...Class of '59 is one of a series of increasingly more academically proficient Harvard classes, a trend that has become quite noticeable since the Korean War. The Class of '59 does not differ markedly from the classes immediately preceding or following it. Thus, one would not expect the post-graduation plans of the Class of '59 to differ markedly either. On the basis of a 73 per cent return in a study of the immediate plans of the Class of '59 the following break-down is reported: 15 per cent plan to get a job, 7 percent plan to travel...
This kind of applied public relations will become increasingly important to Harvard as Program-financed buildings replace ramshackle houses in the declining residential areas near the University. To meet the need for a person to sell Harvard to the city, President Pusey last summer created a new post, Administrative Assistant for Civic Affairs, and appointed to it, Charles P. Whitlock, then Senior Tutor of Dudley House...
Although no amount of post-mortem analysis can altogether remove the aura of a grand failure from Carles's work, it now appears, in retrospect, that Carles stood so alone because he was so far ahead. As a young man he had gone to Paris, fallen under the spell first of Edouard Manet and then the postimpressionists, sipped coffee with Matisse and Brancusi. Back home in Philadelphia, where he taught from 1917 to 1925 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Carles slowly digested his European lessons, then moved on to a symphonic orchestration of colors...
Blough streamlined the legal department, went on to important roles in labor negotiations, financing, a hundred other tasks. Within ten years he had scrambled through the corporate hierarchy so fast that when Ben Fairless shifted over from president to chairman in 1952, a special post of vice chairman was created for Blough and he became, in Fairless' words, "my right bower." Three years later, when Fairless retired, it was a foregone conclusion that Blough would be the new boss...