Word: woods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stadium, and a roller coaster screams by third base. Though the infield grass is plastic, the place is handsome. "Almost too nice," says the pitcher Bret Saberhagen. "It doesn't feel like spring training." In the name of civic pride and the interest of land development, tin and wood are being traded everywhere for aluminum and concrete...
According to a draft agenda, released by pro-divestment Overseer Peter Wood '64 earlier this week, the meeting is divided into three parts: a two-hour "review" of the University's investment policies, a 90 minute "review of the Harvard's educational activities relating to South Africa," and a mere 90-minute "discussion of the above issues with members of the committee...
...Wood said in a critical letter to Tom O'Donnell '47, the chair of the Institutional Policy Committee, "it is particularly important that the separate matter of Harvard's laudable (if small and long-delayed) scholarship and exchange efforts not be confused with divestment. The latter issue is of an entirely different magnitude, since fully 100 times as much money is involved...
...last December's Overseers meeting, Wood proposed a divestment resolution, which the Board tabled for further consideration until last month. Then last month the issue was further stalled when the Board sent it to the subcommittee for preliminary consideration. Prior to the December meeting, Steiner and Secretary to the Governing Boards Robert Shenton went on a tour of the country, visiting the Overseers at their homes and offices, explaining why they should not vote on the divestment resolution--skewing the process even more...
...Overall, there have been 14 shutouts, with Harvard's Godfrey Wood recording the first one in a 1962 consolation game over Colby...