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...despite the administration’s support for football and enhanced emphasis on extracurricular activity, Conant met in 1951 with Yale President A. Whitney Griswold and Princeton President Harold W. Dodds to discuss restraining the expansion of intercollegiate athletics. The Statement of Scholarship Policy would lay the groundwork for the formal code of the Ivy Group in 1954, particularly the Ivy commitment to amateur sports...
Laying the Groundwork...
While her husband taught psychology at the University of Minnesota (UMN), Hively became what she calls “a very active volunteer” with the League of Women Voters and local environmental groups, coordinating efforts to implement pollution control legislation and laying the groundwork for the service-oriented career that would follow...
University President Lawrence H. Summers reflected on a year characterized more by groundwork laid than tasks completed in his last Crimson interview of the academic year yesterday...
While Lee’s tenure was marked with prominent failures, her supporters say she is responsible for laying the groundwork for Chopra’s administration. They say she undertook bold initiatives that were undermined by the administration. And they credit negative perceptions of her administration to her lack of political savvy—not to shortsighted planning...