Word: programming
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...names Charles P. Whitlock the next dean of the College. 22 - The Equal Rights Amendment goes to the states for ratification but eventually fails to gain enough votes. 23 - After the College decides to discontinue the Staff Tuition Scholarship (STS) program for teaching fellows, recently unionized graduate student TFs call for a one-day boycott of classes. The strike never materializes...
...Four people are hospitalized after a confrontation between labor leaders and members of a black Vietnam veterans group in Phillips Brooks House. 5 - Harvard endorses 3 women for the Rhodes Scholarship, breaking a 71-year-old tradition that restricted the award to male students. The administrators of the Rhodes program ignore the nominations. 7 - War breaks out in the Middle East as tank battles raged along the Suez Canal and the Golan Heights. Israeli jets bombed the Syrian capital of Damascus and struck Cairo as well. 10 - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns, pleading no contest to income tax evasion...
...were well-organized and had a program of speakers, dinners, debates, position papers and an annual trip to Washington to meet government officials," said William R. Glass '75, former president of the Republican club and now the president of an educational computer software company...
...Harvard made some progress away from its old reputation as breeding ground for the WASP elite. In 1973 Harvard instituted an affirmative action program targeted toward women and minorities...
...healthy life expectancy" rates released Sunday, the World Health Organization said the U.S. ranked 24th, despite spending more on health per capita than any other nation. The United States "stands out as not doing as well as they should be," Chris Murray, director of the U.N. agency's global program on evidence for health policy, told the Associated Press. The culprit? Just what you'd expect from in a country that eschews socialized medicine: Its health care is the best in the world - for those who can afford it. According to the study, rich Americans are the world's healthiest...