Word: seven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Pusey named the seven members of the new Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies that would oversee the development of Harvard's Afro-American Studies program. Dean Ford agreed to serve as temporary chairman until the department found a leading black scholar as its permanent chairman. Henry Rosovsky, chairman of the special committee that first investigated Afro-American studies here, also was appointed to the committee...
Forty-nine per cent of those answering the questionnaire said that Harvard should not stop expansion into low-cost housing areas in Boston and Cambridge. Twenty-seven per cent opposed expansion with the rest undecided...
...pattern seems to have developed since 1948, when Cabot became treasurer. Harvard chooses as its treasurer the head of State Street Investment and as its deputy treasurer the next-ranking executive of that firm. So one of the seven voting members of the Corporation is simply a delegate from this Boston investment company...
...final decision will be made by the seven Corporation members. The Corporation is primarily interested in the financial and social position of the University and it seems likely that the man they choose will be both a capable fund raiser and prominent in the nation's academic establishment. As a reflection of their own isolation from the University, the members of the Corporation will probably be less concerned that the new president share this community's sentiments or even that he be willing to listen to them. This selection policy seems to have been followed in the past, but Harvard...
...time know that it tends to move in circles. Once the decadence of a particular form of music has been generally recognized, there is a return to the basics, a rediscovery of roots. This period of retrenchment is necessary before a new form can take over. It happened about seven years ago, when the initial momentum of R&R died and was temporarily replaced by "folk music," à la early Dylan. Now that the excesses of the Gilded Age of psychedelia have become boring, the same thing is going on, with a revival of Country music. But just...