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Wharton enrolled at Harvard at age 16, was thefirst Black member of WHRB and graduated cumlaude in 1947. An economist and expert oninternational affairs, Wharton began his tenure asthe first Black president of Michigan stateUniversity in 1969 and became Chancellor of theState University of New York...
...worried about her filling Maggie's [Vaughan]shoes as the leader of the defense, but after thefirst game of the season I never worried again,"Kleinfelder says...
There were difficulties at first. "I gave thefirst exam to all classes at once. Four hundredexams! I never finished correcting them all. Afterthat I staggered the tests." The laboratory was sohot that Quist says he turned the lights off tokeep the heat bearable. He arranged field trips tolocal factories and taught the text in his ownorder. "I love teaching," he says. "I'd like to doit again someday...
...confronted Defense SecretaryRobert S. McNamara outside Quincy House anddemanded that he account for civilian casualties.McNamara finally escaped the mob by ducking intothe University's underground tunnels. Nearly 2700undergraduates signed a letter of apology toMcNamara, but they seemed to disapprove only ofSDS's manners, not its opposition to the war. Thefirst major national anti-war rally in New Yorkdrew dozens of buses from Cambridge...
...would be bad for someone to say, "They didthis to me because I was Puerto Rican or Chineseor Jewish or Black,' when they were wrong in thefirst place," said Douglas A. Allen III, a Blackguard posted in Dunster House...