Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest news of the year, to some, was the resumption of athletic relations with Princeton, except for football--after a lapse of four and a half years. And in late February, a Boston morning paper ran a story claiming that President Lowell was planning to resign--a story branded as "unsubstantiated" but before long proved correct...
Outside the sports world, Dean Hanford called for course reduction and fewer hour exams, the College held its first transoceanic radio debate with Oxford, and President Lowell celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. Soon to resign, Lowell could look back with pride on his record of educational innovation and reconstruction. Tutorials began to slowly increase contact of faculty member with student; the General Exams emphasized a carefully planned academic program of distribution and concentration; the House system helped to mold the "Old Harvard" into new patterns more suitable for the times; and the extensive building drive provided the room for growth...
...things do not happen that way in Ceylon. Constitutionally, the government need not resign unless it loses a vote on the budget-which does not come up until August. Besides, Bandaranaike quickly patched up a new alliance with Parliament's three Communists and 14 Trotskyites, who resent Gunawardena's energetic bid for personal publicity and power. Trading on the jealousies that divide Ceylon's varied Marxists, Bandaranaike hopes to serve out his term till 1961, and seems secure for perhaps six months...
Killian stated only that he was resigning for "compelling personal reasons," about which the President has had "warm understanding." It had been reported erroneously yesterday that Killian would return to the presidency of M.I.T., and there was speculation that he had been asked to resign...
...chairman of the board, the title previously held only by Hill and his son, Louis Hill. Until he broke a hip last fall, Gavin continued to take an active interest. Last week President John M. Budd informed Great Northern stockholders that Gavin, ailing at 78, had decided to resign as chairman and director...