Word: throughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In 1977, the student group succeeded at raising the criticism and controlling the debate that climaxed when 3500 members of the University marched through Cambridge streets in the torchlight parade of the spring of '78. The heat from the march and from student opposition to Harvard's continued holdings of...
Student dissatisfaction with Harvard's investments re-emerged in the fall of 1977 when members of the SASC called on Harvard to divest of its holdings in banks loaning to the South African government and to urge corporations to withdraw from that country through shareholder resolutions.
The student response to the Corporation report was overwhelming--a torchlight march by 3500 through Cambridge streets and a demonstration that cordoned off University Hall for a day. But President Bok and the Corporation defended their decision by asserting that divestiture would be ineffective in shaping corporate policy in South...
Every Tuesday morning new Harvard employees follow handwritten signs through the corridors of Mem Hall to a secluded basement orientation room. There, anywhere from a handful to more than 40 people--mostly women--spend two hours guzzling coffee, watching a slide show about working for Harvard, and listening to a...
The K-School had also had a turnover rate of 61 per cent in the school year 1977-78, when 27 of its 44 clerical and technical staff left. Its rate returned to about the University average of one-third last year. Cantor says he is not surprised by the...