Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What sets Harvard apart in endowment management, investors say, is its degree of sophistication. The Management Company is a $6 million-a-year operation employing a staff of 90, keeping 88 percent of Harvard's $2.5 billion endowment. Lately HMC has moved into risky areas where universities never dared trod--venture capital, stock options and futures, complex bond arbitrage operations--and has even pioneered a scenario (called "stock lending") where it lends short-term securities like bonds to private investors. Harvard takes the cash those investors pay and deposits it at market rates of return--a double-edged...
...says the Class of '84 represents a new generation that is "less idealistic and more wise," a group which "strikes a balance between passionate commitment and practical use." The seniors are "less a part of the national and international struggle than their predecessors, college is a time to be apart from the world...
...received high ratings. How does a historian teach analysis? Bailyn does it by raising a few major problems in sequence: "Why was the British Empire vulnerable at the time just proceeding the American Revolution? For years, there was always a group of aggressive people trying to take the Empire apart. What were the conditions that permitted it to happen at that time?" McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis '68's course, Computer Science 11. "Computers, Algorithms and Programs," was another "winner" on analytical skills. His approach emphasizes logical requited analysis through problem sets; programming itself is only part...
...Cambridge during that period, but who looked to Harvard as a leader in the world of the academy. I think we all took heart in Harvard's actions," said Riesman. Harvard's public image and its handling of the most celebrated cases did set the University apart from other colleges in the nation. Despite President James B. Conant's '14 signature on a 1949 National Education Association report which stated that Communist Party members "should not be employed as teachers." Harvard did take a comparatively firm stand against McCarthy; first, by selecting Pusey to succeed Conant; and second, by refusing...
...Apart from his corporate commitments, Stone says his big hobbies have been fundraising for Harvard and working with the New York Harvard Club. He says fundraising is essential for preserving the basic goals of the institution teaching and research. "You have to get at those basic issues," Stone says, "and that takes money."CrimsonPeter H. Schwartz17 Quincy St., the Corporation's headquarters...