Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bothered to listen to the report on teaching or because they disapproved of it, but I doubt that there were many they were not. Some whom I saw leave I know to be very concerned with the quality of teaching here. Others were not teachers. Add to this the fact that we were listening, after all, to a long summary of a report we'd already been given to read and that the room was exceedingly crowded, hot, and smoky, and what seems to me remarkable is that the vast majority remained where they were for the major portion...
What was far more important than the ebb and flow of people in the room, at least to this observer, was the fact that no one in the Faculty challenged Professor Rivers' (and her committee's) conclusions about the need for improvement, or, for that matter, the means for implementing improvement. None of the notorious anti-teaching people stood up to protest the misguided liberalism of the report, the needless expense of the teaching center it proposes, the impossibility of adhering to its recommendation that teaching be a major criterion for tenure...
...fact, the impression I left with was that the proposal for creating an environment in which teaching skills might receive unwonted (and, yes, in some quarters, unwanted) recognition at this University had actually gotten off the ground. Student interest and pressure can help keep it in flight, and may, indeed, be essential to keeping it in flight. But partial and, I'm afraid, somewhat automatic newspaper responses to what's being done to nurture this (for contemporary Harvard) rara avis, are not too helpful. Peter Dale Allston Burr Senior Tutor
...committee to deal with cases arising from a violation of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities. Interpretation of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities is a personal matter for every member of the Harvard community. The implications that can be drawn from the Resolution should not be translated into fact as presented in the November 20 article...
WHRB has in fact helped many bands, but only in that we have had the freedom to give them the air time that we believe they deserve. Any success achieved by these groups should be attributed to the quality of their work, and listener acceptance. Listener acceptance is what musical success is all about. Robert A. Falk '79 Program Director, WHRB