Word: questioned
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Coolidge was born a Boston Brahmin (his father Julian Lowell Coolidge was a mathematics professor here) and looks it. Still handsomely distinguished at 54, he looks and talks like the epitome of a well-bred gentleman. It is easy, as he leans back in his chair reflecting on a question, to see him as the image of Wisdom and Moderation--the kind of man you could entrust a Cezanne collection to with the assurance that it would be put to the best of all possible uses...
...aftermath of Columbia's turmoil, an obvious question arises: Could it happen here? Could Harvard have an explosion of similar proportions? At Columbia there was an appalling lack of flexibility on the part of the president and trustees; the university also had no machinery for involving students and faculty in the planning and decision-making processes. Yet would Harvard's Corporation be any more flexible in the face of reasonable opposition from the community, and from students and faculty, to a policy-decision? Harvard's decentralized government and its community-minded Office for Civic and Governmental Affairs would probably never...
...election of a younger alumnus to the Overseers, although a new departure, is by no means a revolutionary one. The question is not whether or not students should run Harvard, but simply whether they have a right to be heard at all. Henry Norr's election to the Overseers will give students and younger alumni an articulate voice in matters which are of concern to all Harvard...
...question of why the committee remains. Can't Harvard's established offices solve their problems by themselves? What does a committee do that they can't do, and why have committees been resorted to more often in the past few years than ever before...
Once a special committee is decided upon, the problem becomes staffing it. For Ford, the first question is a chairman. He says John T. Dunlop, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, was an "ideal choice" to chair this year's Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Faculty. Dunlop had just finished a term as chairman of the Economics Department, his field--economics--was a large, central one in the University, and his specialty within the field--manpower and labor relations--was relevant to the committee's topic...