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...only over what had happened but what was happening to Harvard, the University probably was incapable a year ago of choosing an adequate replacement for retiring President Pusey. A week after Pusey resigned in February, 1970, the Faculty overwhelmingly passed a resolution challenging the traditional Corporation prerogative to select presidential successors and asking for a University-wide search committee including students, faculty and alumni. Other faculties followed suit, as did student committees and some alumni groups. Few could tell at the time whether these were the last rumblings of discontent or the start of a new wave of protests against...
Even the criterion on which to select a president was in question. Did Harvard need a man whom the faculties could embrace as a compatriot (many professors had sent letters critical of Pusey's inadequate credentials as a scholar)? Or did Harvard need a man who, though not a scholar, could be an administrator bringing external order and perspective to the ingrown tendencies of Harvard academia? Should Harvard choose a man on his ability to handle specific problems-curriculum reform, financial crises, dwindling faith in scholarship, even merger debates? Or should it choose a man who had little experience with...
...Faculty then unveiled a new plan which, in the words of the CRR's chairman, was "designed to produce students" to sit in judgment on their fellows: each House would simply select by lot a fifteen-member panel, and from this group the four student members of the CRR would be randomly selected. The system would have worked had even one House agreed to select such a panel. But, embarrassingly enough, every single one-every Radcliffe and Harvard House and the Freshman class-defeated the proposal in referenda, and declined to participate...
Wealthy Woman. The Queen did not propose how much the increase should be, but she did offer to forgo her $144,000 Privy Purse in exchange for help on other royal expenses. The matter was discreetly referred to a 17-member Select Committee in the House of Commons. The Crossman article raised the question of just how rich the Queen of England is. Though Crossman "conservatively estimated" her fortune at $120 million, no one really knows, and many place it much higher. Surely she is the wealthiest woman in Britain, and in all likelihood one of the half-dozen wealthiest...
Pinter is not out to anatomize nostalgia or even to strip it naked, but to show how people use memories as weapons. The woman visitor and the husband vie with each other to possess the wife by possessing her past. In the process they ruthlessly select and reshape "old times," casting each other in roles to suit their own purposes. Did the woman or the husband introduce the wife to the movie Odd Man Out! Did the husband once meet the woman in a pub and go to a party with her where he gazed up her skirt? The answers...