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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...REPORT is no plan, and he disclaims any hope of seeking a permanent one-shot solution to the problems affecting College education. He specifically spurned the "appoint a committee and study it" approach. Given the way Bok operates, probably that means he is serious about the problem and doesn't want to shelve it. He places emphasis on the corrective value of the gradual and informal evolution away from exams and towards writing papers, away from lectures and towards seminars. Yet the need for a more major dislocation remains. For one thing, all gradual trends aren't favorable to better...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Bok's Newest Hobby: Undergraduate Education | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

Eighty members of Dunster House have signed a letter to President Bok requesting that he appoint Caroline W. Bynum, assistant professor of History as the House's new Master...

Author: By Robert Field, | Title: Dunster Members Call on Bok To Name Bynum New Master | 2/23/1973 | See Source »

Under normal circumstances, the extension of Bernstein's residence period into the next academic year would overlap with his successor's tenure. But the Committee on the Charles E. Norton Professor of Poetry was not planning to appoint anyone to the chair next year anyway for financial reasons, according to Harry Levin '33, chairman of the Committee...

Author: By Elizabeth Samuels, | Title: Lenny Gets A Postponement | 2/17/1973 | See Source »

...soon as additional faculty are found, the Dean (whoever he may be at the time), will take the Department's chairmanship away from Guinier and appoint a new man. The new chairman and his Department will have to deal with an issue only apparently resolved at the January Faculty meeting--the problem of joint concentration. By a narrow 69-66 margin the Faculty rejected Martin Kilson's motion to require students majoring in Afro-American Studies to take at least five half-courses in an outside discipline. If Kilson and his supporters are influential within the search committee...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: Afro: Waiting for Change | 2/15/1973 | See Source »

What will President Georges Pompidou do if the Gaullists win next month's parliamentary elections? According to one highly imaginative scenario that political observers in Paris are currently debating, his first step will be to sack lackluster Premier Pierre Messmer, 56, and appoint in his stead Minister of Finance Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 47. As it happens, the suave, non-Gaullist Giscard is regarded as Pompidou's arch rival for the 1976 presidential elections. Last week he came in a close second to former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas in a nationwide popularity poll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL NOTES: A Gaullist Scenario | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

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