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...academic establishment has suffered a crisis of confidence. When the growth stopped, many other things went wrong. We lost some of our best and most dedicated teachers--there wasn't room for them. The culture stopped supporting education: it lost the trusting, confiding attitude towards the educational endeavor that had made that endeavor great and successful for generations. But despite all these factors, those who stayed in teaching during this period, or who were able to start--if they fought successfully against becoming demoralized--have continued to lead privileged lives in the classroom. There, while the content changes...
...House inappropriate. Since South House has, of course, direct historical ties, to Radcliffe College, it seemed reasonable to expect that if and when it gained a proper name, it might well be the name of a Radcliffe graduate, a women who had gained prominence in her own field of endeavor and in her own right. We realize that most women of the generation of Thomas Dudley Cabot would not have had the opportunity to achieve the sort of financial status which would enable them to contribute vast them, but nevertheless we had hoped that the administration of Radcliffe and Harvard...
...business development are simply unworkable, given reservations' desolation and isolation. The Navahos of Arizona live on top of $2.5 billion worth of coal, but can't get to it without a $100 million railroad. And this is not to mention the potential envrionmental problems posed by such an endeavor...
...There are more records in medicine than any other endeavor in American history," says Richard J. Wolf, curator of Countway's department of rare books. "And since some of the earliest doctors in America practiced here in Boston, one idea for such a library developed in New England," he adds...
Furthermore, despite rare cases of so-called "overnight successes," the record industry, especially in times like these, has been conservative to the point of rejecting new musicians and styles. For any new artist to emerge successful in this endeavor requires a good deal of plain old work and, above all, patience...