Word: establish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dissatisfaction of some concentrators with the current circumstances in Afro does not limit itself to personalities alone. For several years, many students have criticized Southern's alleged neglect of Pan-Africanist perspectives in Afro course offerings, charging that the chairman wants to firmly establish an "Americo-oriented" approach to academic research in the department. Last year's decisions to withhold tenure from Isaac and Pierre-Michel Fontain, former lecturer on Afro-American Studies--both recognized Pan-Africanists--have been attributed directly to Southern's influence, and Afro concentrators Peter Hardie '77 and Bruce Jacobs '77 attacked these policies...
...which will place all freshmen Yard, move all upperclassmen out of Canaday Hall, and so end four-year Houses at the Quad next year, was one of a flock of proposals that had been floating around for years. Other proposals included plans to convert the Yard into Houses to establish uniform four-year housing, and to house all freshman in the Quad and all sophomores in the Yard (or the reverse...
Momentum has grown to change this situation. The Committee on Women's Studies--a Radcliffe student group set up by the Radcliffe Union of Students--has worked during the past semester to establish an organized concentration in the field. The group has managed to attract substantial undergraduate support, some faculty interest, and at least cursory administrative attention...
...traditional Japanese performing art," remarks the Tokugawa Museum's curator, Sadao Okochi, in the catalogue, "has been purified and transformed by the dignity of its costumes." The motifs of a robe's design establish the mood, the period and the place of the action. Thus-to a Japanese theatergoer who knew the rules-a costume like the karaori robe in russet silk (see color] would at once suggest a Heian-period court, somewhere between A.D. 800 and 1200. The balls, woven with exquisite precision in raised white silk, refer to a Heian court game called kemari, an aristocratic...
...proxy issues this year. Ratner has reported on two of these, Manufacturers Hanover Bank and General Electric. On Manufacturers, the ACSR faced the South African question for the first time over the issue of further loans to the South African government. Other than agreeing that we felt Manufacturers should establish a policy of assessing the likely social impact of each loan to the government, the ACSR could not agree on how to recommend to Harvard to vote its proxy shares. A plurality, but not a majority were opposed to the resolution. Others advocated abstention; and still others (myself among them...