Word: handbook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typewritten pages (single-line items, double-spaced) to make up a list last year of all the innovations, ideas, and administrative changes and goals that it has instituted in the last four years under Hall's guidance. Hall is proud to tick off items from the list--the administrative handbook, weekly staff meetings between the directors of all administrative departments, the Delta 2000 computer, centralizing the personnel office, and a whole host of gadgets and programs. All these items add up to a major effort to centralize, automate, computerize and economize administrative services at Harvard. When measured solely...
...have ordinances specifically forbidding it, gays can generally be barred or evicted from privately owned housing, without legal recourse. "Until recently, no avowed homosexual dared apply to medical or law schools," says Lawyer Marilyn Haft, co-author of The Rights of Gay People, a new American Civil Liberties Union handbook. "Now the political climate is such that it is less likely that a qualified homosexual applicant would be rejected out of hand." Homosexuals are still regarded as insurance risks, and state licensing laws implicitly ban them from certain professions...
Each undergraduate is expected to be familiar with the contents of this booklet and the Handbook of Undergraduate Regulations...
EQUALLY SUGGESTIVE is the spurious reference to the Handbook of Undergraduate Regulations. Undergraduates receive such a booklet, it is true, four times, in their September registration envelopes, but few still have it in their possession by November, and virtually none is familiar with its contents. Nor is there anyone, apparently, who actually "expects" them to be--the passive voice, here as throughout Rules Relating conceals a pseudonymous or perhaps shadowy, Kafkaesque figures than those lurking among the pages of this small handbook, here surfacing as "the Senior Tutor," there as "the Administrative Board," but always making their presence felt...
...reverently returned my handbook to my camera pack and decided to track down someone who could enlighten me as to what was going on. I corraled Paul D. Weaver, Assistant Director and Controller, who put the Dressage in layman's terms. "It's basically equivalent to the compulsaries in figure skating," Weaver said. "Sort of a cross between gymnastics and ballet that incurs negative points. The least amount of penalties amassed at the end of the three days will be your winner...