Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another area where Harvard bit the dust was faculty resources, which counted for 20 percent, based on such factors as student-faculty ratio, faculty doctoral degrees, percent of part-time faculty, average salary and class size (excluding sections). We were ranked 11th; Yale and Princeton were 6th and 7th, with Caltech taking the top spot. You would think that with Harvard's "best in the world" policy of hiring faculty, we could do better than a measly 11th. Then again, U.S. News did not include faculty name recognition as a category...
...convinced that the editors have a hidden agenda. They obviously weren't satisfied with Harvard's being number one six years in a row. So they decided to shake things up a bit, change things around, make the public take notice--and they decided to put Yale first and Princeton second. The ruse is made even more effective and ironic by the recent appointment of James M. Fallows '70 as editor of the magazine. (He claims he had nothing to do with the decision...
Forgive the Harvard men's water polo team if it looks a bit unimposing...
...going to be a bit more difficult for the other...
...crusade against something without "condemning" it. And once people start condemning divorce, they're going to do the "busybody meddling" that lets them decide which spouse was in the wrong and thus gets the condemnation. Though the result may not be rampant "Puritanism," there will have to be a bit of "oppression" in the air if the crusade is to work. There will be "self-righteousness" too. What else can you call it when married people look askance at divorced people...