Word: appointment
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Next year's students will face these uphill struggles alone. Sidney Verba '53, professor of Government, chosen to replace outgoing Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Glen W. Bowersock '57, will be on sabbatical; because Rosovsky did not deem it necessary to appoint a temporary replacement, students will lack an administrative ally during the critical early stage of Core and tutorial legislation, a time when many educational reforms are just beginning to gather momentum. Deprived of their most valuable resource, students must assume even more initiative in calling for better teaching at Harvard: they must rise from spectators to actors...
Gomes said yesterday he will appoint an acting minister to take over his duties at Memorial Church, but that he has not yet chosen anyone to fill the post...
...president's critics say that despite his insistence that he would not appoint somebody who would damage the institute's ability to carry out its functions, Harberger would have done just that. Worse yet, they argue, Bok's letter, "Reflections on Academic Freedom," seems to contradict his earlier positions and split moral hairs. While arguing against cost-benefit analysis in the Harberger case, he argued for it in last spring's letters. In his "Reflection on Boycotts," Bok said that when universities refuse "to take collective stands or exert economic pressure, [they] are guided by a belief that any benefits...
...would be to appoint younger chief executives. They would be more likely to look at long horizons and take the creative chances that would pay big dividends on some distant tomorrow. The median age of corporate chiefs is now 59, and so they are often driven to achieve short-term results. There is too much pressure for risk-free, sure and often modest success. Unless managers know?and the public understands?that they must be free to fail in some ventures or wait for the longer-term payoff, they will never take the daring step...
Huggins said his first priority is to bring more faculty to the department. He met yesterday with the executive committee to begin discussing candidates for tenured positions. Both he and members of the committee, however, said they do not expect to appoint new faculty members--senior of junior--by next year...