Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always fare well. Students with the necessary qualifications for college work were so few that until 1908, the College maintained a preparatory school to boost applicants to the necessary academic level. And in the '80s the school was debt-ridden to the point that the president offered to resign so that his salary might be used to keep Lawrence from buckling...
...that Goldman had based his action on a personal standard of fair dealing, not on any intentional of defying the committee. The board also urged another instructor, Paul Aron, to speak freely about himself before Jenner's group, but Aron Stood on the Fifth Amendment. On April 8 he resigned, before the board had decided on any action. "The resignation is not in any way the result of a request or of pressure by the President or Board of Trustees of the College," he wrote in his letter to President Harold Taylor. "Nor is it by reason of the fact...
...always fare well. Students with the necessary qualifications for college work were so few that until 1908, the College maintained a preparatory school to boost applicants to the necessary academic level. And in the '80s the school was debt-ridden to the point that the president offered to resign so that his salary might be used to keep Lawrence from buckling...
Robert Fisher, who had tried to resign the previous year, had been retained as football coach, while Major Charles Daly, a former Crimson, great and more recently a coach at West Point, was hired as one of his assistants. William Saltonstall and Joseph Crosby were both in the starting lineup as the varsity defeated R.P.I. 18 to 6 in the opener...
...mayor was indicted, tried, and found guilty of conspiring to cause the police department's vice squad to neglect its duties. "I was framed!" he cried. When he was sentenced to serve four years at hard labor, he refused to resign as mayor and announced that he would keep right on running the city from his cell. But by this time nobody was listening. When he entered gloomy old Dedham jail last week, he was forbidden to have more than one visitor a week, denied permission to use a telephone, to see aides or sign city papers. The city...