Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your decision to resign from the Faculty of Harvard University so that you can remain as a member of my administration is one that I know is very difficult for you. The intensity of both your devotion to scholarship and your affection for Harvard are well-known to your friends and associates. I want you to know that I greet your decision with deep personal appreciation...
Joyce Holland, another employee of the Afro-American Department, voiced a similar complaint. She said she was given, in writing, the University's promise for a pay increase-but claimed that a personnel officer had told her that she would be "asked to resign or be fired" if she attempted to "make a fuss about...
...Today's announcement is less a passing of the torch than a changing of the guard and renovation of the guardhouse. Pusey is the last of the four top administrators responsible for the April '69 student strike to resign his position. Fred L. Glimp '50, former dean of the College, and Robert B. Watson '34, former dean of Students, bailed out just months after the takeover of University Hall, followed closely by Franklin L. Ford, former dean of the Faculty...
...helped Germany come to terms with itself. In the foreword of a forthcoming British edition of his early writings, Brandt declares: "I did not regard my fate as an exile as a blot on my copybook, but rather as a chance to serve that 'Other Germany,' which did not resign itself submissively to enslavement...
Considering the explosive quality of the revolts, it was all but inevitable that the party structure would undergo a drastic purge; few Western observers, however, expected that it would be so soon or so severe. In addition to Gomulka, who ostensibly resigned his post for reasons of health (in fact, he has long had a heart condition), four of his close associates were dropped from Poland's twelve-man Politburo. President Marian Spychalski, 64, felt so completely disgraced that he never even appeared before the Sejm (Poland's rubber-stamp parliament) to resign from office in person...