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...week later, shortly after 1 p.m. on Feb. 21, Summers would announce his intention to resign the presidency after just five years at the helm—the shortest tenure of any Harvard president since the sudden death of Cornelius C. Felton in 1862. Calling his conclusion “my decision,” Summers denied speculation that the Corporation had forced...
...felt it should be there. He violated the law,” Post remembers.BREAKING UPBut Bingham’s unwillingness to change his views led to dissent on the leadership of the board. He wanted the women of the family, including his two sisters and his wife, to resign, saying they contributed little. “Barry was very stubborn about his views and not easy to compromise, and that contributed to the problems that the board had at The Courier-Journal,” Post says.Bingham’s parents had made their children promise to leave...
...tunnel from his dormitory 15 minutes past the 8 p.m. deadline when he was caught by a guard, Royce recounts. To keep the women out of the dormitories, the College locked all of the entrances to the dorms, Royce adds. Because of the incident, the College forced Barnett to resign from his presidency two-months into his term.Barnett says he simply accepted his punishment for disobeying the parietal hours.“I had not done that before in the past,” Barnett says of the incident.Royce also found ways to work around the restrictions, even...
...hours of operation be extended because the “noise and overcrowding” of the dorms made studying in rooms difficult, according to The Crimson. And in the fall of 1955, overcrowding in Briggs and Moors Halls forced two Radcliffe student government representatives to resign because they were forced to commute from their homes in nearby Boston suburbs. A ROOM WITH A VIEW Despite the adjustments being made in the Houses, the Overseers’ 1955 report said that the crowding did not seem to bother undergraduates.“We are aware of the official opinion that...
...company that has scaled down operations in Massachusetts is Ameriquest, which closed nine Massachusetts branch offices. Patrick currently sits on the mortgage firm’s board of directors, though he has announced his intention to resign in July...