Word: judgemental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...making a political judgement about whatwould happen in the future," the faculty membersaid...
Harvard sells $1.8 million worth of stock in the Echlin Corporation because the Connecticut trucking firm would not furnish the University "with sufficient data to form a judgement on their operations in South Africa. The University still owns $416 million in South Africa-related stocks...
That is why Harvard pays for the judgment of professional administrators. If that judgement more perfectly respected what those administrators supposedly serve, Harvard government would be more or less satisfactory...
...stickler for rules. So I cried to him, "Oh great arbiter of the West, please hear my cries. I pray to you have mercy (another great Western trait) on my soul and let me rejoin the just philosophical tradition that I learned at my mother's bosom. Your judgement is the right judgement Mr. President, and I obey your commands but now please reconsider. Please, pleeeze...." He didn't listen...
Sending the letter was an act of poor judgement, indicating the University's lack of respect for the opinions of its alumni. But Derek Bok's involvement in the affair raises other serious questions as well. When the president of the University transcends his mandate to influence the nominally democratic elections of the board charged with overseeing his activities, he demonstrates the fallacy of Harvard's claim to openness...