Word: takings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plan presented by Afro for increasing students' role in governing the Afro-American Studies department. Under the plan, six students would join the seven Faculty members on the department's Standing Committee. When the department got a full complement of Faculty appointees, a new student-Faculty Executive Committee would take over control of the department. The Faculty reserved the right to review the program...
...voted nearly unanimously to take mass action to obstruct the Committee of Fifteen's disciplinary hearings...
...sign, a little jingle about Great men from a Chinese fortune cookie was pasted. When I entered the room to arrange an interview, he tried to pawn off his old furniture on me. And when the first interview had been set up, he cancelled it in order to take a bartending job that afternoon and leave this university out of hock. Ken Glazier, former chairman of the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee, had never learned the fine points on the Harvard student-politico game...
Every year, a few persons voted honorary degrees choose not to take them, for health or other reasons. Harvard officials, of course, refuse to say how many...
...grant a degree to President Andrew Jackson when Jackson made a trip to Boston. The members of the Corporation disagreed with Jackson's politics, but felt it had to honor him as it had honored Monroe when he visited Boston. John Quincy Adams, a Harvard Overseer, did not take part in the confirmation vote, and he later wrote in his diary that it was a disgrace to confer the University's "highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and could hardly spell his own name...