Word: deane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rosovsky, clearly in his element, easily stymied the opposition. Undercutting student protests by accepting possible by-pass and pass/fail options, and sidestepping departmental jealousies by accepting an amendment that would allow some shifting of requirements between areas, the dean came up with a compromise plan that sailed through the Faculty on the final vote. The margin of victory was almost 3-1: Harvard's first major curricular change in 30 years had a clear mandate from the professors, if not necessarily the students...
...future of the new government is still unclear: Dean Epps has warned that the minority clause may be illegal, and other administrators have refused to say whether the assembly will be allowed to play an active role in selecting representatives to the student-faculty committees. Nonetheless, the Student Assembly will take office next semester, and the administration may well have to do some hard thinking about how it will deal with a suddenly louder student voice...
Eighty per cent of women undergraduates made the dean's list, compared to a mere 77 per cent...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, asked a group of Harvard students to discontinue the sale of specialized t-shirts purportedly celebrating Radcliffe's centennial. The shirts, which bore the slogans, "Once a Bitch, Always a Bitch," and "Radcliffe--Where the Women Come First," were reportedly selling well at the time of Epps's request. "We're not going to lose our shirts," one of the t-shirt salesmen remarked, we hope in jest...
...there has made him a figure of national interest almost rivalling that of his predecessor, Kingman Brewster. A professor of English and comparative literature at Yale, he emerged into the spotlight as the likely choice to become that school's 19th president in December, after Henry Rosovsky, Harvard's dean of the Faculty, apparently rejected an offer from the Yale Corporation to assume the post. Well-liked by students, Giamatti served a two-year stint as master of Ezra Stiles College, one of Yale's 12 undergraduate residential colleges. He established his reputation as something of an iconoclast by refusing...