Word: presidentitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The most important subcommittee will investigate the problems caused by Harvard's large administrative bureaucracy. It will reexamine the role of the President, the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, the Council of Deans, and other administrative bodies. In addition, this group will study University finances, considering shifts in federal grants...
C. Douglas Dillon 31, Harvard Overseer and prominent member of the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Administrations, has been elected president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Rodney B. Petersen '71, president of HRCF, explained that fellowship members "believe in a God who knows the affairs of men." Petersen believes that God's hand is behind the current revival because, he said, "This is nothing we could do alone."
Six Wellesley women took part in Harvard's retreat in 1968, but 30 joined this year's retreat. Wellesley's Fellowship President, Ruth Ricsner, said, "Itis God working." She said many members had prayed last year and over the summer for increased activity in the fellowships.
But fellowship president Peterson attributes the strength of his group to that very "fundamentalism" -Christianity, he said, offers a "very historic, very real, and very complete philosophy."