Word: godkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clark Kerr's Godkin Lectures describe and name a new U.S. institution: the "multiversity...
...cover any routine Harvard news that came up. One paper, the Globe, always supplemented the Cambridge reporter with a student stringer, who was paid a small monthly retainer to keep the city desk a day ahead of the others papers on Harvard stories. When more sophisticated items arose, a Godkin Lecture perhaps, or an honorary degree, the papers could trot out their sometimes more equity education writers...
John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, said that he would deliver the 1969 Godkin Lectures on television, switching from the traditional practice of live speeches to Harvard audiences...
...last of his three Godkin Lectures, John Gardner attacked radical dissenters. Because of unrestrained student demonstrations, "protest has become a disorderly game for 12-year-olds," Gardner said...
...other. How can the U.S. reform its society without going to either extreme? No one has yet produced a completely satisfactory answer. But no one has tried harder than John W. Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, now chairman of the Urban Coalition. In delivering the annual Godkin Lectures at Harvard, Gardner made an eloquent plea for constructive change in American institutions. Excerpts...