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...Masters of Lowell House. First, the inclusion of "Mass Hall" and Mr. Bok's name in quotes in the second and third paragraphs as one who is "not willing to listen to the masters" and one who has "no faith in the House system" was inaccurate and incorrect. He has spent a significant amount of time with me this fall and I'm convinced that he is genuinely concerned about our role in Lowell House and the role of the Houses in undergraduate education. As to the rest of "Mass Hall" I would point out that Mr. Hall received...
...important budgetary considerations and control out of our fiscal and administrative procedures." This is a W.C. Fields newspeak, the earnestly pseudoprecise diction beloved of bureaucrats, who imagine that its blind impregnability will give their ideas some authoritative heft. In fact, it only confirms the Confucian maxim: "If language is incorrect, then what is said is not meant. If what is said is not meant, then what ought to be done remains undone...
...problem is compounded when racial sensitivities are involved. Should teachers try to enforce the prescriptive rule of standard American English on black children who have learned a dialect at home that is quite different, that is "incorrect" by the standard rules? Ghetto students are often faced with the choice of accepting the teacher's standards or retaining those of family and friends. Says William Smith, associate professor at Boston University's School of Education: "If a child is told the way he speaks is ignorant, he has only two options: ridicule or silence...
Clearly, this interpretation of Harvard's structure is incorrect and unfair. Harvard has no stockholders, makes no profit, pays no dividends. Instead, the University has a limited income which it must divide between the maintenance of its plant, the development of new facilities (housing, library, and recreational), the funding of various academic programs, food and a myriad of other expenditures. All the money gets spent; if not this then next year; if not on one program, then on another. When fees are increased or expenditures curtailed, nobody makes money because of it. The University as a whole is the sole...
...Harvard Business School's division of computer service doubtless made perfect sense. It read, in full: "We have been informed by DEC that a bug in the normalization algorithm used in three MACRO instructions (FADL, FSBL and FMPL) can cause a FORTRAN double precision compare to give incorrect results. A double precision compare should be accurate to 16 digits. This bug can cause the compare to give incorrect results in the ninth digit. We will notify all Users as soon as we receive a solution to the problem from...