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...months after the Ms. story. The New York Times also focused public attention on Gilligan, heralding her as a "vanguard" of a movement of new psychological research on women...
Historically, Harvard has always been on the vanguard of endowment management. Paul C. Cabot '21, a tough, profane Brahmin and the uncle of Walter Cabot, served as Harvard's treasurer from 1948 to 1965 and quintupled the endowment. He demanded complete discretion in managing Harvard's money, arguing that you can't invest by committee. Cabot shifted more than half of the endowment out of downtown Boston real-estate and high-grade bonds, and into common stocks--considered, at the time, a radically new strategy for a private university...
...place to begin is the fact that ours was a college student's protest, and not, as I remember claiming at the time, the action of a vanguard of the urban proletariat and Third World peasants. We were born in the most powerful country on earth in its history and grew up entirely within the post-War economic boom. Life came so smoothly, so almost without incident, that almost no memories remain, no signposts to draw the boundaries. In the 1960s we came of age in the nation's best, or at least its elite, colleges. Most of us never...
...months after the Ms. story. The New York Times also focused public attention on Gilligan, heralding her as a "vanguard" of a movement of new psychological research on women...
...majority of the cumulative popular vote. Yet Mondale still has a wide lead in total delegates (1,564 to 941, as of last Saturday) because of his victories in the big industrial states, his support from the Democratic Establishment and the arcane provisions of delegate-selection rules that his vanguard helped draft two years ago. Even if Hart should sweep the five remaining primaries on June 5, including those in California (306 delegates at stake) and New Jersey (107), his delegate total would still be just about 1,200-well short of the 1,967 needed to nominate. Mondale...