Word: harvardmen
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Bowls of Croesus. The search for Croesus' refinery began when Andrew Ramage, one of the Harvardmen on the expedition, noticed some oddly similar circular depressions in a clay floor near the site of a shrine built to Cybele, the goddess who protected ores and metals. Not far off was the Pactolus Torrent, which once was noted for its gold-rich sands. Moreover, slag similar to that produced in metal smelting rimmed the edges of the depressions. Ramage and his colleagues soon realized that they had stumbled on an ore refinery...
...next eight finishers, six were Harvardmen. Senior Jim Smith, the only Crimson runner to race the course before yesterday, came in fifth, just two seconds out of third place. Bob Stempson took sixth, 11 seconds ahead of highly-touted Steve Bittner of Yale, who had the second-fastest time over the 4.45-mile course until yesterday...
There is no rule of politics that says a U.S. President has to get along with the country's intellectual community. Few Presidents have done so, although most of them have tried-notably, Franklin Roosevelt with his Brain Trust, Kennedy with his White House stable of bright young Harvardmen. Even Lyndon Johnson sought to establish a rapport with the academic world. Last week that link was broken with the resignation of Dr. Eric F. Goldman, 51, who since 1964 had served the Administration as a part-time intellectual-in-residence. That raised a question: Would Johnson, whose appreciation...
...page story in the Globe yesterday hinted that Morton H. Halperin, assistant professor of Government, would soon in at least four other Harvardmen who have received Johnson appointments. But, said the article, "stories about the President's denigration of Harvard men accurately reflect his native instincts." Halperin, who acknowledged the possibility that he would leave Harvard's Center for International Affairs to join the Department, disputed the article's main point...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, also refuted the Globe's contention "Just look at the record," Beer said. He cited Harvardmen in Presidential task forces, the Economic Advisory Board, and the Cabinet, and those who act as unofficial advisors...