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The first of two recommendations referred back to the subcommittee suggested that each House be assigned part of the freshman class and a proportional amount of space in the Yard. This play would allow each House to choose whether to settle its assigned freshmen in the Yard or in the...

Author: By David B. Hilder>, | Title: If at First You Don't Succeed... | 2/11/1976 | See Source »

Appointing new faculty deans is an important function of any university president. But because Harvard is so decentralized, appointment power takes on new significance. Once appointed, a dean at Harvard has almost ultimate control over the personnel and policy of his school. This year Bok is faced with the appointment...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: The Four Horsemen And the Apocalypse | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

Filling deanships and vice presidencies isn't all that Bok will be concerned about, however. Bok says he "will be working with Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty, on several appointments" including a new dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics and new masters for Mather and North...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: The Four Horsemen And the Apocalypse | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

Stanford University, often called the "Harvard of the West,"* has no problem filling its freshman class each year with straight-A students. Because good grades came so easily to these students in high school, however, many enter Stanford with slovenly and inefficient study habits. To their dismay, they discover that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Help for the Brightest | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

A student walked into the Nat Sci 27 exam three years ago and picked up two blue books. He was well prepared for the exam, and sat down and put his name on both books. He wrote the exam, filling one book, finishing just on the last page. He got...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann and Richard Turner, S | Title: In the Bunker | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

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