Word: center
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William Hoyt, director of the pension sub-department in the Office of Fiscal Services, puts it very simply: "If you have equally qualified candidates, you try to hire the minority." And, as a brief glance around offices in Holyoke Center and elsewhere will confirm, this practice is generally followed. In Hoyt's department, for example, two of the four workers are women, Minority employees, particularly black workers, are an integral part of every department in the University...
Dean Henry Rosovsky's reform of the undergraduate curriculum--three years in the making, and usually lumped under the term "Core Curriculum"--held center stage for most of the year. Since last summer, when groups of Faculty members began to take the five broad areas of study recommended in the initial Core reports, and to shape them into definite elements of the "core of knowledge" that was the Faculty's announced goal, the significance of each step in the process was clear. The final result--a set of ten required course areas, of which students must take eight--came after...
...Andrew W. Mellon Foundation yesterday announced a $340,000 grant to support research on women's studies by Harvard faculty members and other scholars who utilize the research materials at the Radcliffe Data Resource Center at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library...
...Commencement exercises will begin promptly at 10 a.m., with indoor seating available for approximately 2000 of the expected 20,000 guests in Sanders Theatre and the Science Center, Koivumaki said. "Bring umbrellas," he suggested...
...insistent clicking of camera shutters blends in with the polite chattering of typewriters in the background as Henry Rosovsky holds court in the News Office in Holyoke Center. An hour ago, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved a new Core Curriculum for undergraduates, marking the end of four years of hard work, bargaining and cajoling for the dean. Now Rosovsky is King of the Hill, exulting in the moment of triumph, the questioning by the major newspaper reporters, the clicking of the shutters. President Bok enters and rewards Rosovsky with a bottle of his favorite cognac; the smile broadens...