Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Harvard first decided to allow men and women to live in the same dorms in 1969, administrators kept the sex ratios at the Radcliffe Quad low--1.5 men for every woman--both to maintain tradition and to create a "warm, supportive atmosphere for women students who wanted that," Thomas Dingman '67, associate dean of the College, said last week...
...Organizing transportation has to be the worst job in the world," Hofer said. "We're constrained by our budget, which doesn't allow us to have...
...should modify its old ways, and stop treating Mexico with condescension. Nothing but Mexico's newfound energy resources is likely to motivate American leaders to do so; nonetheless, the change is welcome no matter how self-interested the reason. The U.S. should not allow its past mistakes to shape its future policy. In the future, both nations should vigorously pursue compromise on issues such as illegal immigration, trade policy, U.S. purchase of Mexican oil and natural gas and Mexico's internal economic development...
...reforms would allow fewer graduate students to lead tutorials. In fact, the restrictions simply recognize long-standing but blatantly disregarded legislation on the tutorial system. In 1958, the Faculty passed legislation, still on the books, which requires that no more than 30 per cent of a department's tutors be teaching fellows and no less than 30 per cent be full-time Faculty members. However, 17 years later, Dean Rosovsky's task force on concentrations observed that these limits, particularly in larger concentrations, have gone unenforced...
...recommend that the departments offer special junior seminars conducted by Faculty members as an alternative to junior tutorials taught by teaching fellows. The seminars would contain a larger number of students than tutorials, thus sacrificing some of the intimacy of the small-group approach. Nevertheless, the seminar proposal would allow students the freedom to choose between small-group instruction and contact with an experienced professor...