Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consider the foregoing discussion of troubled areas as representing the entire picture. Much, very likely most, of the work of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences continues to give teachers and students the intellectual and emotional satisfaction that has made Harvard what it long has been. However, despite the central role of that Faculty, a great deal of the glory and importance of Harvard lies in the professional schools. We have not had time to sample faculty and student opinion in these schools to anything like the same degree as in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. However, our impression...
...HAVE given much thought to the question whether Harvard's present set of central institutions can be improved or altered to enable it to deal more effectively with such issues. Almost the first point brought to our attention after our appointment concerned the enormous burdens which the expansion of the University and its new problems have placed upon the President, and the consequent need for strengthening the central administration to case these burdens and provide other officers who will be in a position to detect trouble areas before these reach serious proportions and who possess sufficient stature that faculties...
Circular Beds. Nonetheless, he brought in Architect Jasper D. Ward, who has a reputation for imaginative renovation. Two years ago, Ward transformed Louisville's abandoned Illinois Central Railroad station into the nostalgically appointed Actors Theater. Ward concluded that the silos could in deed be converted into twelve-story apartment buildings for an estimated cost of $2,000,000. Work will begin next January, and the first tenants are expected to move in in early 1971. Plans call for installing floors either by pour ing cement into forms at every level or by affixing prefabricated circles. Jackhammers will cut windows...
...know that he wanted to stop off in Peking. According to Nosaka, Kosygin made his request as soon as he reached Hanoi, but Peking had not bothered to reply by the time he departed five days later. Kosygin flew to Calcutta and was en route to Dushanbe in Soviet Central Asia when the Chinese leaders finally approved the meeting. Though Kosygin's long detour was interpreted as a loss of face for the Russians, Moscow should ultimately profit from having demonstrated its willingness to forsake protocol in the interests of peace...
INCREASED community involvement was one of the central goals of the alternate slate. At first the organizers questioned a number of the Coop's employment and investment policies, where it quickly turned out that the Coop was in most cases doing a good deal already. At the time Wes Profit admitted, "Like Harvard, the Coop does a lot of worth while things which never get publicized...