Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harp playing may not help Kogan into heaven but it has already earned her a Rotary scholarship to study in the Royal Academy of Music in London next year. From London, the music major will cross the continent to spend part of the spring and summer in the Soviet Union on a Radcliffe fellowship--she hopes to study in the Moscow Conservatory--before returning to the United States to continue harp studies at Julliard in New York City...
Maguire and Gibson say they expect graduate schools to use more money next year as they become familiar with the work-study program and make it a major part of their financial programs. But this year, faced with unused graduate school work-study money in January, administrators decided to reallocate about $250,000 to Harvard undergraduate...
...good Government major knows that if you want to get a bill passed in Congress you have to lobby for it. So when Harvard wanted to draft a bill that would base guidelines for recombinant DNA research on federal, rather than state or local, standards, it hired a lobbyist. Was the effort a success? Does Harvard have ivy? Harvard had the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment in the palm of its hand. One committee aide said, "This new bill is just the Harvard bill in dressed-up form. They capitulated to Harvard's demands...
...Center. An hour ago, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved a new Core Curriculum for undergraduates, marking the end of four years of hard work, bargaining and cajoling for the dean. Now Rosovsky is King of the Hill, exulting in the moment of triumph, the questioning by the major newspaper reporters, the clicking of the shutters. President Bok enters and rewards Rosovsky with a bottle of his favorite cognac; the smile broadens around the ever-present pipe. In a few minutes the press conference is over, and the dean, dangling a keychain with an applecore charm, heads...
...political and more educational, "less spectacular, but far more important" work. "In a way it's quieter work, and may be more satisfying," he says. Before embarking on the long road toward implementation of the Core, Rosovsky offered some observations on the prolonged debate that led to the first major reform of Harvard's undergraduate curriculum in a generation...