Word: action
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge as the home for their school in large part because of the "winning way" of the community's leader, Thomas Shepard. But six present-day civic leaders, including Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy sent a letter to the Board of Overseers this winter asking it to take some action to remedy about "the consistent poor judgment and insensitivity" of Harvard officials in their dealings with the city...
Other in the city though there were motives darker than orneriness behind Harvard's action. David Sullivan, a lawyer for the Alliance of Cambridge Tenants, told a Phillips Brooks House audience in April that Harvard might be planning to develop an academic complex in the Square...
...bill-H.R.--13778-is scheduled for floor action today, but officials on Capitol Hill said yesterday prolonged debate on other issues may delay until tomorrow discussion of the bill...
Although the professors who have to teach tutorials are the same professors who vote on legislation condemning departments' reliance on teaching-fellow-run tutorials, Faculty members are generally reluctant to follow up their votes with action. No professor claims to oppose the principle of teaching tutorials, and most would agree that professors are the best possible tutorial leaders, but research commitments and understaffed departments make Faculty-taught tutorials a rare commodity. Bowersock notes that the '60s brought a flood of graduate students to the campus, and as a result, some Faculty members view the phenomenon of a professor-led tutorial...
...persist in one of the oldest articles of the American faith - a belief in the technological fix, in new developments that will bail them out of their dilemmas. Gasohol, for example, has just the look of that American deliverance. Thus, in a sense, American tradition itself militates against concerted action against the energy shortage...