Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shklar leads another life which she has always refused to sacrifice to the full time teaching load which would have more readily gained her the status of professor. Her determination has won out: Harvard decided to make her a professor although she will continue to teach less than full time. Dr. Shklar's "other life" consists of a husband and three children, and confers upon her the equally appropriate title of Mrs. Shklar. As a credit to her own versatility and a well-balanced division of responsibilities at home, she fulfills her various roles to her own satisfaction, and--although...
...administration has been quick to point out that the number of teaching fifths has greatly increased in past years. (Each 'fifth', an undefinable quantity supposedly representing one-fifth of a full-time teaching load, covers an amount of work extending from one section or tutorial group to several, depending on the department.) There was, in fact, according to Dunlop's figures, an increased in the number of fifths throughout the sixties, but a docline in number in the last two years. The implication that the increase during the sixties was somehow an unwarranted expansion, and a gift to the graduate...
...addition, it was during this period that the position of instructor was abolished. Instructors were junior faculty members who often carried much of the tutorial load: in effect the addition of teaching fellows was simply the replacement of badly paid instructors with worse-paid teaching fellows. Bearing these facts in mind, it is significant that the number of fifths has already begun to drop, and this at a time when Harvard's undergraduate enrollment is increasing. Does the Harvard administration regard House courses, tutorials, and other seminar-type courses as frill, to be cut at the first signs of 'financial...
...that private cartmen are a "single operation," collecting high-mass garbage from restaurants, industries, and the like. His men, he says, not only have the more time-consuming job of collecting lighter-mass rubbish--which has to be compacted over and over again to equal the mass of one load of garbage--but they are also responsible for street cleaning, snow removal, and disposal operations. "I'm a great guy for studies, though," he says, willing to take on a comparative pilot program between the two to prove his point...
Nowadays, "protective" measures are often regarded as discriminatory. The rules that prevent women from working late hours or lifting heavy loads take "beautiful care of women," New York's former Congresswoman Katherine St. George has said bitterly. "They cannot serve in restaurants late at night-when tips are higher and the load, if you please, is lighter. But what about the offices that are cleaned every morning about 2 or 3 o'clock? Does anybody worry about these women...