Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chest, brrrrrrrt! So I go over to where he went down, and he's not there. I finally find his body 50 ft. away. Now it seems medically impossible he could have crawled that far with his heart and lungs tore clean out like that. But one thing you have to learn is that people don't die the way they do in John Wayne movies. It's disheartening...
...Senate, and I can be judged on that." He explained that it was important to him personally that he put some distance between himself and his brothers. "I'm proud of them, obviously," he said, "but I don't want nostalgia to be a part of this thing. Now the criticism will be aimed at me." He seemed pleased at that, sure of his own thought. Said he: "I'm the person who will be judged, not them...
Possibly the uninspiring discussions on the merger put Marquand and his colleagues to sleep. Only one thing do Faculty members clearly recall about the debates--they were dull. Chase N. Peterson, then Harvard's director of the admissions and financial aid and now vice-president at the University of Utah, says no one was "exceptionally passionate." Back then the Faculty had more passion-inducing issues than the fund drive and the Core Curriculum to consider. When former Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting formally opened the Faculty talks on the merger in April 1969, the student strike erupted two days later...
...Faculty did, however, offer what any good bureaucrat would consider the next best thing to a slot on the agenda--it appointed a committee "to examine the issues." Although the Faculty planned to form the committee by the end of the '68-'69 academic year, it did not name the members until August, and the committee in turn did not meet until September. And no Faculty members recall hearing a committee report. On professor said he thought Giles Constable '50, professor of History, might have reported, but Constable denies ever sitting on such a committee...
Mayman is quick to point out that today there is no such thing as "the arts at Radcliffe." The office runs programs for undergraduates, she explains, giving no preferential treatment to women...