Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quell unrest on college campuses during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Lyman served as provost of the university for three-and-a-half years before his appointment as president. An organizer of one of the country's first teach-ins on the Vietnam War, he became less vocal publicly after assuming the presidency. He is credited with introducing important changes in Stanford's admissions and curricular policies...
...more vocal controversy this spring, the University showed the hypocrisy of its appointment policies. Bok nominated efficiency-oriented Chicago economist Arnold C. Harberger to head the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) without consulting the HIID Faculty Council--or considering that it might be wrong for a professor whose policies enacted in Chile caused starvation and misery to lead an institution that advises foreign governments...
University and hospital officials issued dire forecasts of imminent research and testing halts as the waste piled up in storerooms; meanwhile, the Cambridge City Council, headed by the always vocal Alfred E. Vellucci, launched an investigation...
...silent majority takes its final steps as Harvard students, a smaller more vocal group will probably linger outside the gates around the Yard to hand out anti-Cotrell and Leonard literature and to enlist support among Commencement participants. Such a group, made up of officials from the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and student sympathizers, picketted Cornell's commencement ceremonies last week. And ILGWU officials have repeatedly warned the Harvard community that if anyone wears Cotrell and Leonard gowns during Commencement, the union will set up "informational picket lines...
DIED. Henry Knox Sherrill, 89, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S. from 1947 to 1958 and one of the nation's most vocal advocates of ecumenism; in Boxford, Mass. Born in Brooklyn, Sherrill rose from assistant minister of a Boston parish to Bishop of Massachusetts at 39 and head of the national church at 56. As the first chief of the National Council of Churches of Christ (1950-52) and one of six presidents of the World Council of Churches from 1954 to 1961, he asked, "How can we expect other nations to cooperate when...