Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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February 28: Because of the SFAC's resolution asking for a moratorium on scholarship cuts for students on probation, the Financial Aid Office agreed to suspend action on all students on probation. Dean Peterson said he would help the SFAC with its study of the relation between probation and scholarship...
...this was because the events themselves bespoke a sorry situation and let the University, its administration, and its students, in for a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking. In part the problem lay with University News Office whose staffers repeatedly astonished reporters by their inability to provide the most rudimentary help to newsmen. But much of the blame must be attributed to he University administration which recoiled with a mixture of fear and disgust at this new aggressive breed of reporter...
...University News Office much help. The News Office has a nifty file of faculty biographies; it's great at sending your hometown newspaper a release when you are elected Vice President of the Freshman Glee Club, but beyond that the office is mired in ineptitude, and frequently, malice. It is not unusual for a reporter to ask if a release is forthcoming, and be told that none is, only to return thirty minutes later and find a stack of 200 freshly printed releases. Harvard veterans had long since learned that the News Office was good for little more than...
...special Faculty committee to lay plans for a new emphasis on Afro-American studies at Harvard reacted to printed reports that the committee's chairman--Henry Rosovsky--did not plan to recommend an autonomous Afro-American Studies department. In an official statement, Afro said that a new department would help attract gradu...
...intelligent reader, that lame dog who often feels the need for help over styles, will find many familiar Lowell mannerisms. Among them: the dazzling fast shuffle of historical cards from different decks, imperial Rome, Emerson's Boston, Wren's London. There are, as always, several Lowells: Lowell the improper Bostonian, the politically engaged, the scholar, traveler and eclectic New England importer of foreign cultures. Lowell the poet has not only the chameleon's ability to change the color of his verse to fit the subject but that wizard lizard's faculty of independently focusing each...