Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These demands were not included in the petition because "we didn't fel the ten of us should speak for all the students in the English department," Elizabeth S. Mitchell 70, another of the petitioners, said yesterday.
The Fine Arts Department, which is listed in Rules Relating as having generals in the junior year, decided two months ago that they would not give the exam, substituting instead a paper, to be assigned as to length and date due by the individual tutor, a secretary in the department...
In an important policy reversal, the Corporation will now allow department chairmen to request personally draft deferments for graduate students in cases where deferment is justified under the law.
...policy never to make a direct request for the exemption of a member of the staff from military service," a March 20 memorandum from President Pusey to all department chairmen reads. "In view of representations made concerning the practice of other universities, the Corporation is now willing to authorize departmental chairmen--or, where there are no departments, individual members of the Faculty--to make a personal request for deferment in cases where, in the judgment of the author of the letter, deferment is justified under...
"This is a very large change," Gerald Holton, professor of Physics and head of that department, said yesterday. "Previously Harvard University could write no letters requesting deferment, and the entire draft law depends on someone writing a letter using the word request. Otherwise the draft board would not by law...