Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company is sort of 100 percent a bad company," he says. "No company is even 50 percent a bad company, and that's the issue you run into with most corporations. What do you do with a company that's 90 percent good and 10 percent bad? Where do you draw the line...
Rosovsky's report was somewhat reassuring--Harvard's myths were never as bad as its critics implied--but you should not view this as a be-all-and-end-all of what can be done for undergraduate education here. There are still too many bad section leaders, too many uncaring professors in the stereotypical mold. You should think about pressuring some of these departments that provide students with little guidance and poor tutorial instruction, to make reforms. And why not tinker with the Core to let students have the option of more survey courses and departmental prerequisites...
...first undergraduate uprising was the famous "butter riot" of 1766. Bad food had been a student complaint since the University's founding, and the rebellion started when Asa Dunbar, grandfather of Henry Thoreau, confronted an administrator and complained: "Behold, our butter stinketh and we cannot eat thereof." For inciting the ensuing demonstration, Dunbar was demoted by the Faculty, but the students rallied behind him and agreed to boycott breakfast. The Corporation and Overseers conceded that the butter was rotten, but they insisted that the students apologize for their insubordination or resign. They apologized...
...contribution to political change. They believed us and made an uneasy peace with the system. Sooner than we, they realized that they would have to earn their way after graduation, and they returned to their books, their exams, and graduate school. We left them, at most, with a bad conscience, but without a clue about what to do with their lives and knowledge...
...very good interviewer." Dershowitz adds that Koppel "is like a good cross-examiner. He's the best interviewer I've had." Small says that Koppel always asks "tough questions with the kind of alacrity that's not afraid to risk affecting the interview in a bad...