Word: departmentment
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Harvard's newest history course moves at a slightly faster pace than most of the department's other offerings--160 years on the average, each and every week.
Despite his extensive study of Harvard's juniorprofessors, Spence has avoided rhetoric orsweeping statements about the need to improve thelot of untenured professors. Instead, he quietlydismantled the old Graustein system, a rigidformula which for decades had determined how manysenior-level appointments a department could makeand when.
"I don't think he has gone back on his word, Isimply think he hasn't been powerful enough," saysone department chair who asked to remainanonymous. "His heart is in the right place. He isjust not really making points."
U.S. State Department officials yesterday made clear that reports of Chinese embassy officials "intimidating" student nationals at American universities are "of serious concern," three days before a Washington demonstration is planned to show support for the pro-democracy movement.
David A. Denney, a State Department spokesperson, said yesterday in a phone interview from Washington that Chinese officials have been warned to "refrain from such activities."