Word: huc
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Nora Ronhovde '66, president of the Radcliffe Government Association, promoted further coordination between the Harvard and Radcliffe library systems and more cooperation between the RGA and the HUC. Mrs. Hunting had earlier quoted a former Harvard faculty member and Radcliffe trustee as saying, "The closer Radcliffe and Harvard get together, the more attractive both become...
...from Dean Ford's plan is any mention of a computer. A report of a Faculty Committee, headed by J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, last year had urged total elimination of Master's choice and assignment by computer. In its reports, the HUC, asked that a computer be used to "tabulate" master and student choices...
Daniel C. Goldfarb Jr. '66, chairman of the HUC, was "disappointed that the system puts the focus on six weeks of painful administration rather than on Master and student choice." The plan, he said, "is guided too much by fear of the emotional reaction that is associated with the word 'computer' in this community...
...representative from Dunster House who helped prepare the HUC report, Henry M. Sondheimer '66, pointed out that the new system would result in the Deans' doing most of the selection. In an HUC poll, 81 per cent of the student body preferred selection by the Masters instead of the Deans...
...HUC's proposed method for House assignment would allow students in rank Houses and Masters to rank students, than have a computer tabulate the assignments...