Word: sever
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Within the Yard, the Class of '84 saw a Henry Moore statue placed in front of Lamont, land a designer guardhouse by Johnston Gate. Sever Hall got a facelift, and lost the blackboard with "Do Problem 2A Only" mysteriously painted...
...tutors, led by Nicholas Sever, complained that the move treated them as second class citizens, and they argued before the legislature for the right to a monopoly of the Corporation. The fight lasted three years, and in the end the tutors won in what is considered an early victory for academic freedom, an issue the Corporation has had to deal with repeatedly since...
...Sever had been dismissed from the board because of his religious and political beliefs, but in 1725 he won reinstatement. For the next half century the Corporation continued in the English tradition with at least three Faculty members serving on the board. Not until 1780 did the neat, modern division of academic and supervisory policy power between the Faculty and Corporation became permanent...
...Despite Sever's political victory, the Corporation was not a real exponent of academic freedom in the 18th century. It still engaged in frequent battles with the Overseers over University business and frequently hired and fired professors for their personal beliefs. Harvard would have to wait over 100 years, until the term of President Charles William Eliot, before the University's hiring policy truly reflected respect for academic freedom...
...were in bed and sound asleep by the time the proctor, moving rapidly, reached our, lower, floor.) And I remember two other events, both sponsored, I believe, by the Lampoon. A distraught "mother," whose baby carriage had inexplicably and suddenly become engulfed in flames in front of Sever at exactly 11 o'clock one morning, and the December mugging in front of the Coop of a Salvation Army "Santa" who subsequently set off in pursuit, bell ringing furiously, of the "thieves" as they ran down Boylston Street with bucket, tripod...