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...carefully circumscribed and tagged 'for internal consumption only.' Rosovsky has, in a sense, accomplished what many considered a Herculean task: in the wake of the '60s tumult, during which the administration came to personify evil, he has, according to one dean, "restored the trust of the Faculty, reestablished the joint desire of the dean and the Faculty to get things done." His moderately conservative image and politics have been forgotten, or perhaps have become unimportant, along with most issues of the '60s; Rosovsky today is known throughout the Faculty as a straight-shooter...
...addition, the 53-page report discusses Harvard's shelving of the Cambridge Corporation, an independent organization operating on a $600,000 joint grant from Harvard and MIT, which was to assume a hands-off policy as developer of housing projects and act as an adviser in selling decisions...
...corporation has been abandoned, according to the report, because of widespread uncertainty regarding the need for further subsidized housing and the drying up of government support. It has been replaced by the joint Harvard-MIT economic planning office, established...
When Jason Scott Cord, a third-year joint law and business student, went for an interview last fall with the prestigious New York firm of Cravath, Swain and Moore, he told one lie too many. Cord told the interviewer he was a big-time college placekicker, and the interviewer, who knew his football, got suspicious and contacted the University, and the greatest hoax in Harvard's history began to unfold...
Although Bok--as president of the University--has felt that it is his role to push the professional schools to create joint programs, he has declined to take the powerful role a president like Conant took in shaping undergraduate education. Although he has argued repeatedly that Harvard must improve the quality of its undergraduate education--"to give the students their money's worth, which isn't a Harvard tradition"--James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, says Bok has restricted his role largely to establishing funding for professors experimenting with new teaching methods. It was not until Henry Rosovsky took...