Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-serving as his comments may have been, Fortas accurately believed that a battle would have damaged the balance of the three branches of Government. Some in Washington already believed that the Administration had pushed too hard to dislodge Fortas. Philip Kurland, a Supreme Court scholar at the University of Chicago, suspected a "planned operation to dump him." Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore called for a congressional investigation to determine if the Republicans had used unreleased information to force Fortas to resign. Still, objections paled beside Fortas' admitted and gross indiscretion. In any case, regardless...
...ordained Congregational minister, he had spent ten years as president of Alabama's predominantly Negro Talladega College, where "we lived together, Negroes and whites, without any distinction, defying Jim Crow." He had later taught ethics in California and served as assistant U.S. Commissioner of Education. As a scholar, administrator and civil libertarian, Gallagher zealously defended C.C.N.Y.'s academic excellence and fought hard to meet the rising educational aspirations of the city's growing Negro and Puerto Rican population...
Bauer, captain and MVP of last winter's hockey team, follows all-Ivy safety and Rhodes Scholar Tom Williamson as the winner of the Francis H. Burr Scholarship. This cash award is presented to the senior who combines academic and athletic excellence. Bauer now ranks as the tenth highest scorer in Harvard history...
...wife is a Research Fellow in African Ethnology at Harvard and a Scholar of the Radcliffe Institute...
...same personal gifts that make a man a great scholar and teacher make him a wise administrator and committeeman...