Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leery of administrative attempts at the "social engineering" of residential life at Harvard, several masters say Jewett's proposal to randomly assign at least 50 percent of the spaces in all 12 houses is both unnecessary and futile. Such a move promises to make the houses more homogeneous and lessen their importance in the life of the College, they...
...addition to increasing interaction between professors and students, adding faculty could lessen the teaching loads of some graduate students. New Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Brendan A. Maher says this could be critical to reversing the decline in the number of Ph.Ds produced by graduate schools...
Henry H. Hsia '90, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones, also said that the increase would lessen his group's profits, but that, like the Glee Club, his group could not find another space that would be adequate for them. The added costs, he said, were "sort of like someone raising the rent of your house--you've still gotta live somewhere...
Administrators say the plan, revealed last tall would lessen the faculty office space crunch and provide a focus for undergraduate life, although some students remain skeptical...
...weakened version of the affirmative action report is not only an attempt to lessen the non-administrative faculty voice, but also a direct slap in the face to a substantial group of students who have been committed to forcing FAS and the University to increase its minority hiring...