Word: greats
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...those days the city of Cambridge was small. "American frontier history can be told largely in terms of cattle," Samuel Eliot Morison writes in Three Centuries of Harvard. "The present Cambridge Common is merely the apex of a great triangle of cow pasture extended to the borders of the township." Nearly 350 years later, Cambridge is big and crowded--102,000 people packed into six square miles, the third highest population density in America...
...Since then they've been quiet, doing nothing to ameliorate or exacerbate the situation," Preusser said. "I don't think they're out to shock us anymore," Sullivan added. "Every time they act contrary to the interests of Cambridge, we stand ready to confront them. The city has a great deal of police power. We have the right to take them to court anytime," he added...
...would hope the result of a great deal of internal reflection would be a decision to seek a working relationship," Preusser says, adding, "We don't need any more problems...
...that there will probably be some colleges perhaps that would find their situations sufficiently like ours and order their educational priorities sufficiently like ours that would lead them to change their curriculums in some way that corresponds more or less to the Core Curriculum. But one of the great advantages of our system of higher education is its diversity. There are many different kinds of colleges and universities and many different kinds of schools, large, small, unisex, coeducational, religious-affiliated, non-religious affiliated. It would be a great shame if any one conception of undergraduate education, or any one curriculum...
Eckstein says Feldstein's revamping of old programs and initiation of capital formation and human resource studies, along with a tremendous turnover in personnel, have given the bureau new vitality. "The bureau has always been a great institution, and periodically it needs renewal," he says. "Now, it has been renewed." Eckstein adds that a factual and empirical focus is not subject ot renewal; the NBER's first president began the bureau in a rebellion against the theoretical thrust of economics at that time. But because it is impossible to dictate what research will improve the performance of the U.S. economy...