Word: formals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also on tap is the first-year formal, just twoweeks away. The event, also organized by thecouncil, will be held at the Swiss Hotel in Bostonon Saturday, Feb. 20. The black tie affair hastraditionally seen a good turnout...
...estimate a thousand," says Nehal S. Patel'02, co-chair of the formal committee...
...assigned. "What defines the homework problem in the U.S. today is variation," Cooper says. Less than one-third of U.S. school districts provide any guidelines to parents and teachers on how much homework children should receive and what purpose it's supposed to serve. In places that have instituted formal homework policies, a semblance of sanity has arrived. In Hinsdale, Ill., parents often complained that their children got too much homework from some teachers and too little from others. So a committee of teachers, parents and administrators spent several months devising a formal policy that requires "meaningful and purposeful" homework...
...pursuing over the past few months the informal and formal mechanisms laid out in the FAS "Guidelines for Resolution of Faculty Grievances," Professor Nesson and I have been following the path that it was suggested to Professor Nesson we take by former Secretary of the University Michael Roberts, Provost Harvey Fineberg, and Vice President and General Counsel Anne Taylor. Indeed, in a letter of Sept. 17, 1998, John Fox, Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, writing on behalf of Dean Knowles, also directed me to the "Guidelines." Surely Dean Knowles will want to investigate promptly the identity...
Then University Provost Harvey Fineberg recommended to me that I use this procedure. I didn't know what at first to make of it. I like and trust Harvey, even though I know in formal institutional position he is on the President's team. I considered it to be possible that he was delivering a message from the central administration that it was open to resolving Peter's case if we chose to follow this procedure. The point is as simple as the Uncle Remus story about Brer Rabbit and the briar patch. Each thorn along the procedural...