Word: headway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the trustees did the right deed, it is doubly unfortunate that the reasons they gave were wrong. By skirting the draft issue they avoided an increasingly troublesome problem on which Columbia was making some headway--how a university faculty should handle educational policies that have vital political implications...
Outside Choice. The compromise must still be approved by the state legislature. Until the university's fiscal future is clearly resolved, it seems unlikely that the regents will make much headway in finding a successor to former President Clark Kerr. Most observers expect someone outside the state to be chosen, even though plausible candidates within the university are at hand. Berkeley Chancellor Roger Heyns, who impresses all factions on the campus with both his fairness and firmness, has been stumping the state to argue against tuition and budget cuts, seems incompatible with a Reagan administration. U.C.L.A. Chancellor Franklin Murphy...
...School, a Faculty-student committee has been established--it is too early now to predict what the committee's impact will be, but some students are already suggesting that it will turn out to be a device for suffocating real dissent. The Ed School may have made the most headway with the integration of students into some Faculty committees. Again, it is too early to tell...
...development, to be called Waterside, has for five years been trying to make headway, has encountered every imaginable obstacle in the process. "This has been dead a hundred times," says Architect Davis. What made the difference was backing from the top; both Housing and Development Administrator Jason Nathan and Mayor John Lindsay decided that it was time to get Waterside under...
Happily, he got his armorial bearings in Brest (and a motto to match: "Love, Work, Suffer"), though he made no headway in claiming the barony that is said to go with the name. It is fortunate, too, for the reader, that Kerouac lost his own bearings so often: amusingly drunken cafe brawls, busted suitcases tied up with neckties, lost planes, overcharging tarts and mercenary French petite bourgeoisie. Kerouac is an engaging fellow. Brave, too. At one point, he undertook to explain to goggle-eyed Parisians that he speaks purer French than they, because "I roll...