Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only the first step. "What we're going into is what I call a controlled experiment," he says, citing the year of "lead time" built into the proposal, time that will allow for research of new course offerings. The Core committees created by the Faculty legislation will have to deal with two problems, he says: first, to examine the current General Education program, to discover what if any courses may be transferred into the Core; second, to create new courses, "particularly in areas where we don't have much." Rosovsky defines such areas as the "Social and Philosophical Analysis" portion...
Creating yet another inherently powerless student voice is not the answer; Harvard hears only what it wants to hear. The centralization of impotence does not justify a vote in its favor. What is needed is an organization prepared and empowered to deal with Harvard on its own terms...
...Faculty, aside from the problems of implementing the Core. He notes that the University is preparing to embark on a new major fund drive--one that will, he says, be "primarily for the benefit of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences"--which he expects will occupy a good deal of his time. On the educational level, however, he plans to address what he believes are the serious problems facing the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), problems that he hopes will be dealt with in a series of Faculty discussions similar to the Faculty effort that gave rise...
...like any other story, there are two sides to explain the new Harvard Real Estate Corporation. Wyatt declines to say that Harvard has managed its real estate holdings poorly, accumulating large deficits and creating communication problems with tenants. He does says that a corporation, a centralized bureaucracy, can better deal with the unique kinds of problems which arise in the real estate business. Wyatt explains that the corporation's purpose is to give a smaller group of people within the University a clear view of the problems and potential solutions...
...then faculty can have students over to their houses, and we will be able to build a tighter community." Wyatt's words echo the thoughts of former president Nathan M. Pusey '28, who wrote in the late '50s, as Harvard was beginning its expansionist era and purchasing a great deal of property in Cambridge and Boston, that he believed that Harvard's future was closely tied to the concept of creating small communities within the larger community, ensuring Harvard's existence "for a long time to come...