Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite all the press coverage that Kennedy attracts, the Senator remains an enigmatic subject. Says Merrick: "Everyone may know about his troubled marriage and his sailing at Cape Cod, but little is known about what he really thinks. He has lived in the public eye so long that he has become a master at shielding his privacy...
Despite Faculty fuzziness on the subject, Faculty minutes and newspaper reports in the 1969-'70 academic year show that the merger did reach the floor of University Hall's faculty room...
...Radcliffe formerly revised its relations with Harvard in the so-called 1971 amendment. The 1971 document outlined, in yet another clause, the precursor of the JPC--the Joint Budget Committee. "The annual budget for the retained programs," (those programs that Radcliffe would still finance) the document stated, "shall be subject to the review and approval of a committee representing the Governing Boards of Harvard and Radcliffe and composed of equal numbers from each institution...
...reasons plebes subject themselves to such discipline are varied. Cadets do not pay tuition, so they get a thorough education without financial obligation. Other cadets want to become professional soldiers; a few are there simply to prove to themselves they can endure the academy, Monteverde says. If there is any factor common to most of them, it is their politics, he says: "Most cadets are rather conservative--they come form the middle class." He adds, "There are about 300 exceptions who are real mavericks," he says...
...over two years students and faculty members have made this direct economic support for the system of apartheid in South Africa the subject of continuing protest, linking it at times to Harvard's own system of racism by its repression of the Afro-American studies department. In the past, President Bok and the Corporation have reluctantly made face-saving gestures, such as providing Nieman Foundation fellowships to the South African jornalists Percy Qoboza and Donald Woods, whenever the embarrassment of their policies have been too great. Now, in another move to undercut the opposition to Harvard's lucrative hare...