Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fives into six groups. Each group serves staggered, six-year terms so five new overseers are elected each spring to take office on Commencement Day. A 1921 law gave the governing boards control over the method, time, and place of voting. Using that authority, the Overseas have granted nominating power to the Associated Harvard Alumni whose Nominating Committee annually chooses ten names for the vacancies. Insurgents can appear on the ballot by petitioning with support of 200 alumni. Write-in votes are also permitted...
Beyond the Corporation's apparent surrender of the power to name Harvard's treasurer, this relationship could be unwise for the University's own selfisr interest which the Corporation claims to protect. In a recent book James Ridgeway, and editor of The New Republic charges that State Street agreed to this arrangement on condition that its investment funds receive priority over Harvard's when trading shares of the same stock...
...clearly than even radicals have said, indicates that significant changes in Harvard's Governing Boards essential. The Major difficulty in making these reforms will be the resistance offered by the men who run the University. And they have already resorted to police violence once to keep their grip on power from slipping...
December 16: Black students at Radcliffe presented Mrs. Bunting with another demand, this one for a "veto power" in Radcliffe's selection of a black admissions officer...
Even greater than the problem of establishing legitimacy with the students was finding a place in the Harvard power structure. Unlike the new SFAC, which is a Faculty subcommittee, the HUC has never had the power to place its resolutions on the agenda in Faculty meetings...