Word: formalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY administrators have offered this week to share their study-abroad program with Harvard. If accepted, their proposal will finally provide Harvard students with the formal machinery for receiving academic credit for coursework pursued in other countries, giving undergraduates a long-overdue opportunity...
...university can hardly doubt the inadequacy of the present system--or lack of a system. Students are certainly aware of the problem: an overwhelming 91% of undergraduates polled favor a formal study abroad program. Nor can the university question the future popularity of the Stanford proposal, especially as leaves-of-absence become increasingly common at Harvard. Some 30 to 40 per cent of the Stanford student-body has taken advantage of this opportunity...
...formal responsibilities were far broader than mine: to review and edit my written reports on price-support levels, and to keep tabs on all developments affecting domestic agricultural production. I soon discovered that his idea of keeping tabs consisted of reading a few magazines and departmental circulars. As for passing on my analyses, he concentrated mostly on perfecting my painfully learned bureaucratic jargon. So at a cost of $15,000 a year to the taxpayers, I slowly cranked out reports that Bob could have (and once had) written. Bob himself...
Last semester's assembly voted at its final meeting to seek some form of formal recognition from the University...
...Jordan, King Hussein kept his American-born wife Queen Nur, Brown's wife Colene and other guests waiting more than two hours for a formal dinner while he and Brown held what was later described as a "frank and fervent" discussion. All went smoothly until Israel became the subject: the King reportedly was adamant about the need for guarantees of the return of the West Bank and East Jerusalem to Arab sovereignty, and for a satisfactory resolution of the problem of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories...