Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard University in touch with the "real world." For despite all the carefully prepared speeches by notables and the celebrity gala that followed, the school's administration proved that it is sadly out of touch with one of the most pressing issues of that real world: the struggle for human rights in South Africa...
...very good description of what the Core is trying to do. What the Core is attempting to do is to define the most important elements of the liberal education, the most important intellectual skills and the most important ways and methods of apprehending the important areas of human experience, and make sure that everything in the Core is specifically designed to address one of those important goals, one important method of thought, one important intellectual skill. So that in that sense there's a greater emphasis on what we feel are the fundamentals of the foundation for further liberal arts...
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...
...Institutions must try to conquer the vices of business by responding in new ways to the human needs of their clients and learn to serve them without trampling on the public interest," Bok said...
Specialization of professional fields has led to a "separation of professionals from the human beings they serve," Bok said...