Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biggest laugh of the year: Bob Kennedy's denial that he will try to succeed Big Brother Jack in the White House...
Richard B. Olson '63, who Williams had charged was the "machine's" choice to succeed Wallison as president, overwhelmed freshman Eric Jager 117-84 to become HYRC operations director...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is as enjoyable as its title is long. Rising from window washer to chairman of the board, Robert Morse is a comic marvel of apple-cheeked guile and flaming self-adoration...
...limited segment of the country, which finds the image of that college's graduates an attractive model. This is "pre-selection", which limits the material from which an admissions office can choose. A century ago, it presented Harvard with the scions of prominent families, who were almost certain to succeed; today it attracts the intellectually active, highly motivated, socially mobile public school graduate as well as the more traditional group. The prestige of the degree is a large portion of Harvard's function as a social escalator, but as society's instrument of social mobility, the colleges in general also...
...contend that a student who did not attend college would be just like one who did; but it is equally unclear that Harvard in particular is responsible for his achievements. It is possible today to argue that Harvard produces brilliant and successful men by attracting those with ability to succeed, holding them while they go through their own natural growth, granting them a diploma which carries great prestige, and, great achievement of all, convincing the alumni that the college which enjoyed was also the author of their success. Perhaps this argument can be refuted, but it is time for someone...