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Ward 7, Precinct 2--Residents of Conant and Rockefeller Hall also vote at the Agassiz Elementary School...
...will change. "The honest answer is no," he admits. Offering a common faculty argument for leaving tutorials in graduate students' hands: If the professor teaches tutorial, he will have to drop a lecture course. Perkins concedes that some professors have managed to carry the double load--Kenneth J. Arrow, Conant University Professor, is one distinguished example...
...added plus of the watchful and concerned eyes of the Board of Trustees--as well as their money. But as Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909, said in his inaugural address, "Practical, not theoretical considerations determine the policy of the University." James B. Conant '14, president of Harvard from 1933 to 1953, reaffirmed that stance in 1952 when he said, "Harvard is not coeducational in theory, only in practice...
...today, while the Radcliffe Board of Trustees works to justify its theoretical role as a hidden helping hand for undergraduate women, its constituents are reiterating the positions of Eliot and Conant--in practice, Radcliffe women are taking courses from Harvard's faculty, eating meals in Harvard's dining halls, using Harvard's libraries, laboratories, and classrooms, and living in Harvard's dormitories...
...March over the issue of the University's investments in corporations operating in South Africa. Ninety-three Faculty members signed a petition calling on the University to divest of its South Africa-related investments, and many spoke out against University policy at a Faculty meeting. Kenneth J. Arrow, departing Conant University Professor, said in a letter to the Faculty Council that the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) last year overestimated the cost of divestiture of stock in companies doing business in South Africa. The ACSR said the costs of divestiture would range from $4.7 million to $16.7 million, while...