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...first time since the middle of President Conant's tenure at Harvard. Mr. Test announces he will not proctor exams this year because of the threat posed by roving Radcliffe Quad "hit squads." Test refuses to elaborate, citing national security reasons...
Ward 7, Precinct 2--Residents of Conant and Rockefeller Hall also vote at the Agassiz Elementary School...
...next five years or so--during which Strominger says the idea of a building "was dormant"-Biochemistry professors remained in their scattered offices. Some were in the well-equipped Conant Labs, but others were forced to work out of the crowded. Biology facilities--which professors say suffer from water, heating and air-conditioning problems...
...then, of course, another retrograde idea was dusted off and heralded as the next great undergraduate breakthrough--and in 1975, 30 years after Conant's committee had prepared the Red Book, the Core was formulated. When Dean Rosovsky's committee came to the conclusion that Gen Ed had degenerated into a gut-filled abyss, it formulated a plan which divided knowledge into not three but five general areas of study; Literature and Arts, Historical Study, Social Analysis and Moral Reasoning, Science, and Foreign Cultures. By the time it is fully implemented for the class of 1986, each student will have...
Both Howe and Conant agree there is a need for tenderness and communication in dealing with cancer patients. Both doctors and family members must keep "a sense of the total person" in mind, says Conant. It is easy, but often harmful, to think of a patient only in terms of his illness, Conant believes, saying, "It's important to remember that you are dealing with a person, not just a platelet count." Howe stresses the need for all those involved with a terminally ill patient to show humor and perspective. He believes that his emotional state, as much...