Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rosovsky, clearly in his element, easily stymied the opposition. Undercutting student protests by accepting possible by-pass and pass/fail options, and sidestepping departmental jealousies by accepting an amendment that would allow some shifting of requirements between areas, the dean came up with a compromise plan that sailed through the Faculty on the final vote. The margin of victory was almost 3-1: Harvard's first major curricular change in 30 years had a clear mandate from the professors, if not necessarily the students...
Solzhenitsyn's citation reads: The clear contemporary voice of a great literary tradition, like his heroic predecessors a courageous exponent of the unfettered human spirit...
...undergraduates detailing the discriminatory system. But it seemed too late to do anything. Radcliffe received a small supplementary grant in the spring that funded about 25 more jobs, while Harvard received a supplementary grant large enough to fund 125. Burton I. Wolfman, administrative dean of Radcliffe, made it clear he had no intention of applying for work-study money with Harvard in the future, even though a joint application would make women eligible to gain from future reallocations from graduate schools. Applying together, Wolfman said, would jeopardize Radcliffe's independent status and could result in a loss to Radcliffe...
Rosovsky answers some Core critics, who contend that the program will give rise to a number of large, superficial lecture courses, by pointing out that the Core guidelines should prevent an uncontrolled proliferation of "weak" courses. "It's really clear what we want the courses to accomplish," he says, adding that the questions of size and superficiality are separate issues. "You can design larger courses to be as good as smaller courses," he notes, pointing to Ec 10 as the model of a course that, despite its size, still maintains a detailed approach to a complex subject...
Although there are, of course, clear status distinctions between the deans and their assistants. Gibson feels employees in her office are treated with respect. Almost everyone there is on a first-name basis, and when more formal titles are used, it's usually because of personal preferences, not on the basis of rank...