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...Mass Hall over the DuBois Institute funding; the six-year lapse since Harvard students took over Mass Hall to demand that Harvard sell its shares in an oil company that supported Portugal's colonizing efforts in Angola; and, most importantly, the nine years that have passed since Bok's predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, called the Cambridge police in to remove 150 demonstrators from University Hall. The swarms of police and the proliferation of locked doors that have appeared in the Yard all week bear witness to the administration's siege mentality. Bok seems to have forgotten, somehow, that...
...Chafin's predecessor at Harvard, David L. Gerski, resigned in March 1977 after a series of confrontations with the Harvard Police Association over his proposals to reorganize the force...
...mean is that the selflessly professional Vance, after some hesitation, has gradually pushed the State Department back into its once prominent pre-Kissinger role in both planning and executing foreign policy.* This has occurred in part because while Carter is indeed more intensely interested in world affairs than his predecessor, Gerald Ford, he is certainly no more so than John Kennedy or Richard Nixon. And as Carter has rushed to confront many problems both at home and abroad, he has sometimes stumbled by not availing himself of State Department expertise. The lesson has been a painful one for both Carter...
...emotions have cooled, and there seems to be a much greater feeling of consensus in the Faculty. There is a dean like Rosovsky--who, unlike his predecessor, McGeorge Bundy, a lover of controversy and institutional intrigue--is frank about his goals for educational reform and his determination to achieve them. And there is a hope that the combination of such clearly-stated goals and a renewed sense of common purpose in the Faculty will produce a new vision of what a Harvard education ought to be--a program that would enable the University to prepare leaders for the 21st century...
...lectures would be great). Dr. Richard H. Thorndike, Harvard prof and Nobel Prize-winner, is called away from Cambridge to take over as director of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous in sunny California. On the way to the institute, he is told that his predecessor died under suspicious circumstances. Shortly thereafter he meets two of his associates at the institute, Dr. Montague and Nurse Diesel, played by two Brooks regulars, Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman. Korman, as the neurotic, weak-willed doctor, seems to be trapped in reruns of the Carol Burnett Show. Leachman repeats...