Word: gathering
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...regularly traveled around the area to speak with business and tribal leaders in order to gather data and gain a better feel for the country’s economic conditions...
...turned up its nose at an issue that should dominate attention. The Faculty meeting in which the Task Force’s report was to be discussed was one of the most poorly attended of the year. We hope that Faust and Smith do not allow the report to gather dust on a shelf and instead make it a guiding document for their tenures.The two should also take a page from former FAS Dean William C. Kirby and former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ playbook in making the improvement of student life at Harvard College a priority...
...While few dispute that the College went a long way this year to give students new places to gather, the real debate now is whether these changes went far enough...
...gather for the annual ritual of conferring degrees, it seems appropriate to reflect on what we are really conferring. The answer is simple—Harvard diplomas—but explaining what it represents is not so simple...
...Whether or not it did in fact advance beyond the effectiveness threshold of a planned economy, the Fainsod system—with its myriad dispersed committees—seems to have created confusion for students seeking a direct avenue to gather and voice a collective opinion. Looking for a more effective, centralized organ of student governance, undergraduates voted in 1978 to establish a 96-member body known as the Student Assembly. Though founded with optimism and ratified by student referendum, the Assembly never received official recognition from the University, nor did it receive any formal powers or funding. That...