Word: developement
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Japanese business and government donated a total of $3 million in the past 18 months towards the creation of a Japan Institute at Harvard. The institute, requiring an estimated $5 million for completion, is part of an overall $30 million program to develop Harvard's East Asian facilities...
...chief proponents of the Japan Institute were Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and a former United States ambassador to Japan, and John K. Fairbank, director of the East Asian Research Center. United States to develop greater intellectual capacities to understand Japan and much more popular knowledge about the country...
William B. Shockley is a short, gentle-looking 63-year-old professor of electrical engineering at Stanford. In the 1940s he helped develop the transistor and won the Nobel Prize for his work. In the mid-60s, Shockley shifted his focus from his field of expertise to an area he knew almost nothing about--genetics...
...newly-created Office of Women's Education hardly seems to amount to encroachment on a traditionally male field. We should be gaining a few more female instructors, although most appointments are junior faculty; the University's plan emphasizes junior faculty positions since "in this way, faculties can develop a group of proven ability to be promoted from within to more senior positions." And the women who still hold close to 90 per cent of the clerical posts in the University, should receive more equal benefits and chances for promotion...
...University committed itself to funding the black-studies center back in 1969, at the same time it decided to charter the Afro-American Studies Department. The Faculty approved a prospectus for the Institute, written by the Standing Committee to Develop Afro-American Studies, in September 1969. At the end of that year President Nathan M. Pusey '28 appointed an interdepartmental committee to oversee the Institute's development. It was at this point that the University's DuBois troubles began...