Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connell at least grants him piety, though he often has been considered a great hypocrite. He was certainly a ruthless schemer all his life. After receiving a bishopric through family connections, at the age of 21, he used his clerical rank and tiny diocese as a steppingstone to power. He maneuvered for years to become First Minister of France, and in his early days was even party to Marie de Medici in her conspiracies against Louis XIII, who at that time seemed hostile as well as inadequate as a potential ruler of France...
...this academic searching for the Truth has produced many promises of reform, but only one concrete result: a confirmation of the University's power to punish rebellious members of its community...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences will make its report early this Fall, which might also open selected Faculty committees to students. The trend of the changes, however, might not increase the accessibility of President Pusey, where, as was demonstrated when police entered Harvard last Spring, much real power lies...
...Harvard Board of Overseers, the University's highest governing body, has created an unprecedented student-faculty-Overseers committee with power to make recommendations on all aspects of the University decision-making process, reliable sources said Sunday...
...range of the committee's power has also not been determined. Much of its work may duplicate the studies of the Committee of 15 and Fainsod Committee, which are presently reviewing restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. While these committees cannot go beyond Faculty regulations and procedures in their recommendation, the new committee may presumably consider the composition of the Corporation and of the Board of Overseers, election of the President of the College, and other major University bodies...