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...departed among that select company--which includes such noble figures as Bliss Perry, Theodore Spencer, Zechariah Chafee, Perry Miller, and Raphael Demos--was increased by one with the death last Friday of Professor G. Wallace Woodworth. He was--and preferred to be--known, however, simply as "Woody," just as another Harvard giant, Charles T. Copeland, had been universally known to earlier generations as "Copey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woody | 7/22/1969 | See Source »

...encourage innovative new methods of constructing lower cost housing, we must adopt a "performance standard" building code, specifically the BOCA code which has received considerable national attention and has already been adopted by a number of localities. This code, rather than limiting construction to a select few methods, sets up minimum standards of strength, durability and safety. Then any system of building which meets those standards can be accepted for use in the city. It is an inclusive rather than exclusive code. It is my feeling that we must be inclusive in an effort to explore every avenue that will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge's City Manager Speaks on Housing Crisis | 7/3/1969 | See Source »

...does no good for a doctor to say "It's all in your mind." The important thing for the pain-relieving physician to do is to determine the source of the pain, whether in mind or body, or even in the amputee's "phantom limb," and then select the most effective treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain: Search for Understanding and Relief | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...interests which have been repeatedly publicized by radicals, serve on the Corporation; the fifth Fellow, A.L. Nickerson, is a Republican from New York who heads the Mobil oil company. With the exception of the youngest Fellow, Hugh Calkins from Cleveland, the Fellows maintain nearly identical life-styles in a select and self-contained world. For example, they share membership in the same exclusive clubs in Boston and New York; although Samuel Eliot Morison, who wrote authoritative histories of Harvard, reported that 'no religious test has ever existed for membership in the Corporation," all three Fellows whose religious ties are listed...

Author: By Jay Burke, | Title: Loosening the Grip--The Corporation In Spring, 1969 | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...have been repeatedly publicized by radicals, serve on the Corporation; the fifth Fellow, A. L. Nickerson, is a Republican from New York City who heads the Mobil oil company. With the exception of the youngest Fellow, Hugh Calkins from Cleveland, the Fellows maintain nearly identical life-styles in a select and self-contained world. For example, they share membership in the same exclusive clubs in Boston and New York; although Samuel Eliot Morison, who wrote authoritative histories of Harvard, reported that "no religious test has ever existed for membership in the Corporation," all three Fellows whose religious ties are listed...

Author: By Jay Burke, | Title: Loosening the Grip | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

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