Word: compassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neither recent nor the product of Cambridge conceit. It is part of a legacy from President Charles Eliot, who, starting in 1869, remade Harvard with a new emphasis on research and graduate study, and, among his faculty, strongly encouraged these scholarly pursuits. At Harvard, as at other institutions, the compass needles of many ambitious academics swung toward research. One result is that complaints about poor undergraduate teaching, lofty and inaccessible scholars, huge impersonal survey courses and cold university bureaucracies are heard on campuses from Maine to California. Like Harvard, most institutions of higher learning are wrestling with the question...
...even a Bostonian can give directions for driving from North Beacon Street to Davis Square in Somerville, but by replacing street names in the head with points of the compass, it can be done...
...There are undoubtedly many causes for what used to be called the 'sexual revolution,' but it is absurd to suppose that depictions or descriptions of uncommitted sexuality were not among them." At times the report hesitantly departs from an examination of pornography and discusses the need for a moral compass in society. "We all agree that some degree of individual choice is necessary in any free society, and we all agree that a society with no shared values, including moral values, is no society at all." While they refrain from seeking to impose their view by legislation, the commissioners make...
...make bankers blanch and children save their pennies. He directed me to southwest Washington and an annex of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, a gray building across from the Central Heating and Refrigeration Plant. Thirty years in Washington and I'd never been there. Did I need a compass and extra rations for such a journey? I kidded. The bureaucrat roared. I liked...
...mean that China has been uncivilized during these years. On the contrary, we owe many of the world's greatest discoveries to the Chinese. The Chinese Association of Science and Technology (CAST) has organized an exhibit which bolsters China's civilization advancing discoveries, including magnetism, gunpowder, papermaking, printing, the compass, and the seismograph. China: 7,000 Years of Discovery is a unique exhibition displaying science, technology and artistry of China's past seven milleniums...