Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...average age of undergraduates and faculty increased, the requirements of dorm residence and regular chapel attendance were dropped, and professors became more professional. He introduced an elective-based curriculum and was the first president to address one of the few academic issues that consistently occupies the Corporation, academic freedom. Except for one incident involving an economics professor's textbook, he introduced the doctrine that Harvard stood for "an absolute freedom from all restriction--governmental, academic, or social--on freedom of thought or speech...
...only real academic in the group--except possibly for Mockler, who started out as a teacher at the Business School and has said he may be interested at some point in returning to it--is Charles P. Slichter '45, a highly regarded physicist at the University of Illinois's Center for Advanced Study and the author of Principles of Magnetic Resonance, published in 1963. He also has written many articles on topics like electron spin resonance, solid state physics and chemical physics...
...study dates in the many libraries except for Lamont which was closed to girls. We considered that very unfair as Harvard boys could use the Radcliffe library, and everyone knew Lamont had a much larger pool of reserve books. People were quite frank about their money or lack of it. Scholarship girls were required to live in economy doubles and had to keep their marks up to a B average...
...what? We had no official career advisement except one interview the last month of senior year. The science majors seemed to know where they were headed, the engaged seemed to have their futures settled, the few law and medical school people seemed to know, while most of the rest of us had ideas but not much self-confidence to make them happen...
This lack of guidance is my biggest gripe about my college experience. We felt and knew there was a void but found the male tutors little help except in preparing for graduate school. The two Radcliffe deans seemed oriented to PhD. work. Our education did not seem to have direction for itself. We had worked hard, harder than many of our Harvard classmates, and done well. We felt triumphant academically at graduation but very unsure...