Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter to Richard T. Watson '54, president of the U.N. Council, Thomas said, "I have every intention of discussing mistakes. I also, however, will try to give credit where credit...
...Dean Watson has temporized; he has not disbanded the YPs, but he has not tried to help them find an adviser either. Instead, he has just left them teetering. This precarious status has limited the HYP's activities considerably, since its members know that at any time they may have to tear their posters off University billboards, abandon plans involving the use of Harvard buildings, and retire to their rooms for further meetings...
Obviously Watson cannot maintain the suspense very much longer. He must decide soon whether to apply the rule with hair-splitting rigor, whether to drop it altogether, or whether to take on the formal duties of adviser himself. Because the idea of sponsors seems here to stay, and because rigorous application would distort the rule's purpose, the Deans' Office should fill in as advisers until it can find faculty members or alumni willing to undertake...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, refused to sponsor the group or endorse its policies, Bousoukis said, unless "University officials," either President Conant or Provost Buck" request him to do so. However, according to Dean Watson, such a request is contrary to the University's policy...
Earlier, the University had intended to close both Apley and Claverly this year. Last March 15, Watson announced that 100 percent of the Class of '54 would be in the Houses and he would assign no future sophomores to the so-called "outhouses...