Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard was founded on Oct. 28, 1636, when the Boston General Court approved a motion to spend 400 pounds to found a college in the area. It was not a hot issue--the motion was the last item on a busy schedule that included prohibiting the sale of lace and awarding five pounds to a sailor who lost an eye while on a voyage to Block Island...
James Henderson '80, a student CUE member this year and last, recalls last year "some faculty members rarely ever showed." Often Bowersock was the only faculty representative present. Willa Brown '81, a CUE member last year, says she can't remember "a time when all five faculty members have been there...
...attendance records of some faculty members are more shameful than others. Alfred Crompton, director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and a CUE member last year, appeared once or twice at the beginning of the year, then mysteriously vanished. "Professor Crompton never came to any of the meetings, and then he shot down one of our proposals--tutorial legislation--at the Faculty Council meeting," Henderson recollects. Crompton concedes he went to "singularly few" CUE meetings, explaining he was otherwise engaged "with an enormous number of commitments." (He added he did not recall specifically the debate on tutorial reform. "Is that...
Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology and CUE member, says he went to CUE meetings last year, when "there wasn't a stronger priority." Consequently, Herrnstein attended "occasionally," Henderson notes...
...most students, though, CUE is supposed to be the one organization which directly works with the Faculty Council and proposes educational changes to the Faculty. But no matter how persuasively a CUE student member defends a student proposal--such as the recommendation last year to expand credit for study abroad--all decisions ultimately rest with the Faculty Council, and no student is allowed to participate in Council discussions. With Bowersock's permission, a CUE student member may present his case to the Faculty Council, but he must leave before the Council begins debate...