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...University of California's President Clark Kerr spoke at Berkeley, where much of the student unrest started; it would all be forgotten, said Kerr rather comfortably, by the time the class of '65 held its 50th reunion. At Tufts, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach declared that he was all for protest as long as it was meaningful, but "it becomes pointless, silly and even harmful when it serves only as a substitute for goldfish swallowing or a panty raid." Katzenbach cautioned against forming rigid convictions on insufficient evidence, and recalled Oliver Cromwell's words to the Church...
...floors. "As you can see," he said, gesturing at the Radcliffe Quadrangle below, "this is only the start of the School." I wouldn't be surprised if the School had the whole quadrangle some day--although that's just a guess." A few members of Radcliffe's 50th Reunion class flinched...
...50th reunion of the Class of 1915 may have more trouble with the weather today, however. Buses for golfers are scheduled to leave at 9 a.m. and a tour of Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge's house in Manchester, Mass will begin at 11:15 a.m. The reunion will also hold a dinner at Kresge Hall...
...Garibaldi's historic 1860 campaign to unify Italy. Even Garibaldi has been kept waiting. Italy's Parliament in 1910 passed a law to erect his statue in Marsala, Sicily, but the technicalities took so long that inflation has made the original appropriation wildly inadequate. Having missed the 50th anniversary, Parliament decided in 1960 to try for the 100th. It passed a new law appropriating 90 million lire, but the design chosen required 200 million lire. The Ministry of Public Works approved the sum. The Court of Accounts said no, and for good measure annulled the 90 million-lire...
Berry best stated his own concern with medical education at a 50th anniversary dinner of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, two years ago: "In looking ahead from the vantage point of 1963, at a moment in time when medicine is caught up in the scientific revolution that medicine itself has so largely stimulated, a major question confronting all of us in this: 'How can medicine best marshal for the benefit of mankind the remendous output of new knowledge flowing from the medical sciences...