Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...next six months, the small group of bankers, lawyers and scholars confronted what many labelled an exercise in futility. "The best they can hope for," one cynical alumnus said at the time, "is a man with a mind small enough to take the job and an ego large enough to think he can do it." It was not an easy task in the early 1970s: presidents of major universities were stepping down left and right and the offered job promised many problems and few rewards. Any decision would be seen as political. The Corporation, as one senior faculty member said...
...School, Bok had acquired a reputation as peacemaker and diplomat. While other parts of the University boiled over, Bok had kept the Law School on simmer. While Pusey had called the cops to break up the occupation of University Hall, Bok had pursued the opposite tack. When a group of protesters held an all-night "study in" at the Law School's library, Bok ordered coffee and doughnuts and thanked the students for "coming to show your concern." Bok's colleagues from his Law School days, including James Vorenberg, professor of Law, clearly remember the "very cool, moderate role...
Archibald Cox '34, Loeb University Professor, chairs the 230,000 member public interest group...
Riley, who is chairman of the State Planning Council (a group appointed by President Carter to study waste-disposal issues) spoke before a Kennedy School of Government seminar on "Nuclear Wastes and the States...
...group of parents last night proposed an alternative racial balance plan for the Cambridge schools, in an attempt to "lessen the disruption" of school desegregation in the city...