Word: enjoyment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Harvard's junior faculty members struggle with heavy teaching loads and meager salaries, the senior faculty enjoy the good life. Some of the perks that make the Yard an attractive place for tenured professors to go every morning include Widener Library studies that allow academics to work close to reference materials, subsidies that help professors moving to Cambridge from other universities find comfortable housing near campus, and access to laboratory facilities that meet the often demanding needs of specific research projects...
Only five Harvard faculty members and administrators traditionally enjoy free housing. Bok, Spence, Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, and Divinity School Dean Ronald Thiemann all live rent-free...
...Cultural Revolution." And Social Analysis 10, "The Principles of Economics," could not be taught almost entirely in small groups without the course's more than 30 graduate student section leaders. Although teaching can take up a huge chunk of their time, graduate students take on courses because they enjoy interacting with undergraduates--and they need the money...
...specifically wanted to get away from academics," says MacDonald. MacDonald is one of many scholarship winners who say they will enjoy a reprieve from school or the workplace...
Nominally, Soviet women enjoy the same rights as men. The Bolshevik Revolution promised political and social equality for the sexes, and the constitution guarantees it. But while women today are better educated, healthier and more fully represented in the professions and on local government councils than their mothers' generation was, they remain second- class citizens. At work -- women hold 51% of the jobs in the Soviet Union -- they find themselves confined to low-paying positions and are noticeably absent from management posts. In the Communist Party, they make up 29% of the membership, but no woman sits in the ruling...