Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main academic advantage of a girls' school is that women are considered the most important students in the college; their education comes first. In many coeducational colleges and universities today the curriculum, of necessity, is planned with the careeroriented male in mind and the needs of the female student, whether she wants a career or not, are largely ignored...
...committee will be chaired by Kenneth J. Arrow, professor of Economics, who first proposed the proportional representation system. The other members of the committee are Sims; Andrew M.Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and a member of the conservative Faculty caucus: Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government and leader of the liberal Faculty caucus; and Charles Maier, assistant professor of History...
...action by the nine-member committee-which has exercised disciplinary powers for the Faculty since September 30-was the first punishment of students for participation in a Harvard demonstration since the Committee of Fifteen acted against 135 students after last April's occupation of University Hall...
...charged will receive a letter from the Rights committee today informing him of the outcome of his case. Each student has three days to ask for a reconsideration of the committee's decision. The committee will re-open a case if it feels a student has evidence contradicting its first findings, Wilson said...
...rate, since Yovicsin is a Harvard employee, the University considers him a representative of Harvard, and Lord knows how the public would react to this association, however, with gambling. First of all, it is unfair to tag Yovicsin with the Harvard name in his outside employment, and secondly, why the hell must we worry so much about the people whose feathers will be ruffled by Yovicsin's new job? Yovicsin should be free to act as an individual, and Harvard should not let a small segment of public opinion negate that right...