Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increasing parietals, and student seating on faculty committees -- bird seed compared to questions like coeducation and a more relevant House system. The latter issues are the type which do indeed decide the social make-up of Harvard, and on these the COH has no power whatsoever. It has no control over social policy-setting matters; it merely oversees specific problems that arise. And even for these small problems, the Committee usually bows to the will of the administration. Dudley House's Master Crooks agrees. In an interview last year he said, "We have never done anything important...
...precious little power. It is the administration that holds the social control over students' lives and defines the ways in which they will live at Harvard. The administration expresses its will to the COH in several ways. First, through the several administrators who sit on the Committee itself. The second, more subtle, way is through the experience of the Masters themselves; they know the fact of life that the administration has control over any decision which involves basic policy...
...administration so thoroughly rebuffed student attempts to share in decision-making power? Because the administration does the University's long-range financial planning and it jealously guards this vital decision-making tool. It is this power of the purse that enables the administration to wield direct control over social matters and indirect control over educational ones...
Administrators say they have little control over how our $1 billion endowent is spent. They claim that most of the funds are "tied"--the term applied to a money gift when it stipulates a specific expenditure. Actually, Harvard's University Fund, which holds all the untied money, compises almost one-third of the total endowment. Last year, more than $25 million of the total $130 million which Harvard received in gifts was untied. So administrators have ample funds to use at their own discretion...
...UNPRECEDENTED problem is to learn how to control a mass technology that is systematizing a society, as well as its machines. As automation destroys jobs and urban sprawl destroys communities, as corporations form conglomerate mergers and government bureaucracy expands, the individual is left with little control over how he can make a living, where he can live, for what ends he will work, or where he can take his complaints to be heard. Government must moderate technology's effects without itself becoming a behemoth...