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...March Eckstein, who was 56, will be remembered by generations of Harvard undergraduates as the leader of Economics 10, later Social Analysis 10. "Principles of Economics." His colleagues will remember him as one of the early pioneers of economic forecasting. Eckstein was the founder of Data Resources Inc the largest forecasting firm in the world...
Certainly Harvard's investors enjoyed what was probably their best year ever. Riding the tail-end of the great bull market of 1982, the Harvard Management Company, which manages the University's endowment, boosted Harvard's bank account from $1.7 billion to $2.4 billion, the largest in American academia. Harvard plunged heavily into the stock market at one point almost 80 percent of the endowment was in equities. But the University in December shifted $300 million from stocks to bonds...
...Harvard's library system struggles with space, preservation and computerization, university libraries across the country face the same problems. While none are anywhere near as large as Harvard's--which, with 11 million volumes, is the second largest in North America after the Library of Congress--most are farther along in using computers and better able to solve the space crunch...
...largest responsibility is financial, with two parts to the job. The first is overseeing the endowment. In many ways the Corporation is more concerned with the class of 1995 than the class of 1984, or even the class of 1988. The class of '88 will be here in September, and the Corporation wants to make sure that the same resources and opportunities will be available five 10, or even 20 years from now. To manage Harvard's investments the Corporation founded the Harvard Management Company 10 years ago and through it keeps the University rich. (See accompanying article...
Gilligan's courses on adolescent and moral development draw the largest enrollments of any courses at the Ed School, with more than 150 students enrolled in the latter course this spring. "I've always been very involved in teaching, and I plan to stay involved. My teaching has always been closely connected to my research. My students provide an important source of my intellectual questioning...