Word: kessen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that stir was strong enough to distract the faculty from the other 117 pages of the Dahl Report. The appendix suggested that the school should remain open all year to try to increase tuition revenue without crowding classes. "The debate on the report waged on that appendix," William Kessen, Yale professor of psychology and committee member, recalls. Ironically, after all "that vigorous and negative response, we ended up adopting that calender in modified form," Kessen says...
...Kessen says that the report got too bogged down on the specifies of change. He said the attention spent on the summer plan was a setback-a sidelight ended up dominating the report's wealth of academic recommendations...
...Yale's Kessen acknowledges that the Harvard report faces the chance of being voted down, like it Yale counterpart, because of the unpredictable and usually conservative nature of the faculty. But he warns against worrying about the now, because "You start weakening your report when you start thinking about it. Can't be constrained by what the faculty will do. Speak to the needs of the College, and don't say platitudinous things...