Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corporation is often referred to as "The Oldest Self-Perpetuating Body in the Western Hemisphere" because it has continually replenished its ranks without outside interference since 1650, as Seymour Martin Lipset and Samuel Eliot Morrison describe in their histories of Harvard. But during the past 334 years its role within the University has changed considerably. The Corporation has always supervised Harvard's finances, but after 250 years of relatively easy management, the job has become increasingly complex in this century...
...April 11, 1775, President Samuel Langdon sent Hancock a letter threatening to replace him, but the treasurer did not respond. A series of follow-up letters went similarly answered, and the Corporation sent a tutor to look for Hancock, then in hiding during the war. He failed and Hancock remained it office until his death, when he left 16,000 pounds for money he had University accounts and a personal debt to Harvard of 1495 pounds, for money he had unscrupulously borrowed...
...legal, moral and social nightmare," says Doris J. Freed, head of the American Bar Association's family-law section committee on research. "It's going to take years of debate, legislation, trial and error to figure out how to deal with these problems." Or, as Samuel Gorovitz, a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, summarized it for the House subcommittee chaired by Congressman Albert Gore Jr., "We have a patchwork of laws and gaps, stigmas, deprivations, uncertainties, confusions and fears...
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -Samuel Johnson Maybe the entire country is awash with scoundrels...
...maintained the highest standards of design and craftsmanship in book production. His early lists emphasized Russian authors, but he also published Thomas Mann, T.S. Eliot, André Gide, D.H. Lawrence and Franz Kafka, among other eminent Europeans, and such U.S. writers as Willa Gather, H.L. Mencken, John Hersey and Samuel Eliot Morison, and Latin Americans Jorge Amado and Gilberto Freyre...