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Pusey was one of three Ivy League presidents who did not sign the letter. Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale, had sent a stronger letter to Nixon last Thursday, asking for unconditional withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. A spokesman for John Sloan Dickey, pres-ident of Dartmouth. said that Dickey thinks he can be "more effective if he doesn't take public stands in foreign affairs. Dickey, who was a State Department official before going to Dartmouth, has in the past expressed his opposition...
Many young managers, finding that they can get more and more money and responsibility by changing jobs, do so with startling frequency. Dr. Edgar Schein of the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management estimates that companies lose half of their new college graduates within the first three to five years of employment. Graduates of 15 years ago often regarded a job, like a marriage, as being for life; today's young men are more inclined to equate it with an affair-good until something more fetching comes along. George Robbins, dean of U.C.L.A.'s Graduate School of Business Administration...
Presentations of honorary degrees are generally solemn affairs, but retiring Dartmouth President John Sloan Dickey put some kick in his kudos for Yale's President Kingman Brewster. Said Dickey, bestowing the LL.D.: "Never one to do things the easy way, you prepared for your avocation as a patrician sailor by being the eleventh-generation descendant of a Mayflower immigrant. As a Yale man, you prepared for the law by going to Harvard, then taught at Harvard Law School in preparation for the Yale presidency. As the editor of the Yale Daily News, you campaigned against the dress of Vassar...
...activities of its students or faculty. General Hershey and local draft boards have their ways of dealing with dissent, but removing Federal support for universities will not change that situation at all. More important, I am not aware that Yale has suffered for the actions of William Sloan Coffin, or Harvard or M.I.T. for the anti-ABM views of Abram Chayes or Jerome Wiesner. Neither am I aware that any university suffered because its students and faculty were active in the Dump Johnson movement or anti-Vietnam war activities...
Instead of adopting fluster or bluster, Dartmouth's President John Sloan Dickey coolly warned that he would seek a court injunction and summon police if any buildings were seized by students. Both sides thus knew precisely where events were taking them, in sharp contrast to recent campus collisions across the country...