Word: efforts
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...recent interview, President Bok said he wrote the letters, which "took an enoromous effort on top of everything else," to address the issues the community cares most about because it "deserves to hear the most thoughtful answers that I could give." Implicit in his remark is the assumption that all he owes the Harvard community is an explanation of his actions: we only need listen, he will provide the answers...
Spokesmen for the American Federation of Teachers--the organization directing the lobbying effort against the bill--said yesterday that they are still working to defeat the bill on the floor of the House...
Higonnet points out that many professors will agree to direct a senior thesis, because it "does not require constant effort," but will not teach a sophomore or junior tutorial, because "it involves rearranging their schedule and not teaching a course that term...
Like Temperance Leaguers, Faculty members occasionally launch campaigns to reform tutorials. This year's effort--marshalled by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty on undergraduate education, joins a long history of changes all directed at the same goal: increased Faculty involvement in tutorials. Sadly, all share the same weakness which dooms their potential for effectiveness: no method of enforcement...
...fact, Baker and Buchwald are founding members of the American Academy of Humor Columnists, a nonpartisan, nonprofit and otherwise nonexistent organization that hands out awards to each member and encourages the exchange of funny memos. "If we put as much effort into our columns as we have into our correspondence, we'd all be millionaires," says Erma Bombeck, 52, whose madcap suburban comedies are syndicated to 800 newspapers, and who may be a millionaire anyway...