Word: returns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party's-almost-over sadness goes with the smell of coffee and fresh biscuits at the morning mail call these days as the first year draws to an end. When an envelope bears the old university's return address, it gets handled like a ticking bomb. Groans go up from the Greek chorus at letters beginning, "When you return in September, you will be serving on the following committees . . ." As if having a last fling, William Leuchtenburg, professor of American history at Columbia, is playing hooky from his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Supreme Court...
Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School, announced December 1 that Harvard would not rename the library or return the funds. He proposed a committee to study the University's entire fundraising policy, but students rejected the idea...
...there's always the winds of Pittsfield which might just return in 1979 and let everyone sick out of the whole thing...
Finally Bok reaches the crucial question. You can take someone's money and use it for good--but must you honor him in return? If so, isn't he just buying legitimacy and using Harvard for his own ends? "Those who wish to drive this point home can easily conjure up grotesque cases to support their position," Bok writes, again characterizing his student and faculty critics as innocents or fanatics who just won't be reasonable. "But no university could accept a Hitler Collection of Judaica or a Vorster Center for Racial Justice or a Capone Institute of Criminology...
Mike Stenhouse's pair of doubles in the twin bill gave him sole possession of the career and season marks for two baggers. The Stenman celebrated with an inspiring recitation of "Casey at the Bat" over the bus intercom on the return trip...