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...women who do appear are simple farm laborers gathering up a potato crop. In rigid lines and soulless silence, they move forward, whisking loose dirt from the potatoes and tossing them into baskets. They are harrowing illustrations from Edwin Markham's The Man with the Hoe: "Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop...
...establishment of a business school for Central America in Nicaragua under the auspices of his Alliance for Progress program, Harvard has played a leading role in aiding Third World nations. Most of this assistance came in the form of counsulting services for specific projects, such as how to increase crop yield in a particular region...
Some people are media addicts. Every magazine, every newsletter, every advertisement that gets slipped under their doors--they read them like the back of the Cheerios box at breakfast. If they happen to be Harvard students, they are lucky. This year, the College's regular bumper crop of student publications--from century old stand-bys to newly founded newsletters--kept readers busy...
...long open letter, which assured us he was thinking long and hard about the divestiture matter. Though his musings did not cross over the point from which the demonstrators started--the issue is a moral one--he probably satisfied some people that he was listening. And when the current crop of radicals is sucked into the rat race, the issue will probably lie dormant for several more years. At the Law School, student protests prompted a postponement of the implementation of the new grading policy. It sounded like a concession, but a one-year delay in a transient community...
...prize, once achieved, may hardly seem worth the effort. Medical students grumble about the unceasing pressures, the torrents of material, the lack of time to think, much less relax. And they are not the only ones complaining. Patients gripe that the products of this regimen, the current crop of doctors, have no compassion, run their practices like assembly lines and are more fascinated by tests and procedures than by the human beings they treat. Medical school deans and faculty members, meanwhile, worry about turning out narrow-minded, unenthusiastic graduates who have little perspective on the facts they have swallowed. After...