Word: sponsored
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...University in the service of social justice. In keeping with the United Front's minimum demands, Harvard should sell all stocks and bonds in U.S. banks which have kept the apartheid regime and its economy afloat through loans to the South African government. It must support, and where necessary sponsor, shareholder resolutions calling upon companies to withdraw from South Africa. Furthermore, Harvard must be prepared to employ divestiture as a subsequent action should companies refuse to respond to shareholder pressure. Finally, the University should issue a clear public statement of its policies regarding U.S. companies still operating in South Africa...
Members of the Harvard Hunger Action Project (HHAP) reported yesterday they succeeded in enlisting the minimum of 1000 students required to sponsor a one-meal fast Thursday night although the final count represented a decrease from participation in previous fasts...
...past, Ellis Island. The quota for Rumanian immigrants was minuscule, and Steinberg was over the limit. While a relative in New York tried at short notice to persuade The New Yorker to sponsor him in the U.S., Steinberg spent a sweltering Fourth of July on Ellis Island and was deported to Santo Domingo on a cargo boat...
After a year, his visa came through: the editor of The New Yorker had agreed to sponsor him. In July 1942 Steinberg landed in Miami and caught a bus to New York, enjoying the "noble view, as from horseback," of America as it rolled by. He had come home to his definitive expatriation...
...amendment, which drew the most debate of the day, would have replaced one half-course in the history requirement with a half-course in an area of study called "Great Traditions of Thought." Despite the lengthy entreaties of its sponsor--Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy--the Faculty rejected the amendment by a wide margin...