Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Desmond Mpilo Tutu, General Secretary of the South Africa Council of Churches, Doctor of Laws...
Just what Harvard will officially call the library is not clear. Existing records, such as the Corporation's minutes in January and this year's Treasurer's Report refer to it as the Engelhard Library; those will never be changed, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, says. But he adds he is not sure how--or if--the different members of the Corporation will refer to the library in the future. Since the Engelhard Foundation, the K-School administration and the students all appear satisfied with the resolution, the Corporation will probably consider the library issue closed...
...problems, which were anticipated ten years ago and articulated in a report by Dean Rosovsky earlier this year, remain the focus of concern for GSAS administrators and individual departments. Besides the more general considerations affecting the quality of the nation's graduate education, GSAS students and Faculty also spent this year discussing internal administrative problems peculiar to Harvard. No group initiated substantial changes, because "change at the GSAS is like a slow-moving ship," says Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the GSAS. But administrators and students have clearly maneuvered into positions from which to take action next year...
...Crimson originally opposed the Core and maintains that stand. While the General Education program certainly needed revamping, the Core is not the answer. Its rigid and complicated structure adds unnecessary restrictions to the already limited choices students face in pursuing a 'liberal education.' The Gen Ed principle, requiring a wide variety of courses in a loose framework, is desirable, but the Core goes too far, specifying too narrowly what the undergraduate education will be. It is only a poor substitute for good advice and counseling that would direct students toward a balanced education, without coercing them...
...obstacle last month, when it squeaked by the House Government Operations Committee on a 21-20 vote. Parker Cottington, spokesman for Harvard's Office of Government and Community Relations, which has gone on record against the bill, says the vote in the committee "may have been the ballgame. The general mood in Congress seems to be more positive this year," he adds...