Word: majors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty has an opportunity to remedy its past deficiencies through legislation proposed by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, requiring professors to teach more tutorials. The major portion of the legislation simply recognizes the longstanding but blantantly disregarded legislation passed in 1958 requiring that no more than 30 per cent of a department's tutors be teaching fellows and no less than 30 per cent be full time Faculty members...
Feldstein has developed a major project this year, a $1.5 million study on capital formation, and his presence is felt in the budgeting process and in determining the character of the bureau funds. "I think there has been more emphasis on economic theory rather than statistics (since Feldstein became president)," Rees comments. "He has areas he wants to stress and he invites people to join the bureau who are doing research in those areas." The New York Times, on May 20, 1979, suggested Feldstein is using the NBER as "his own private vehicle." But people inside the bureau...
Given Harvard's traditional indifference to student opinion, members defend the assembly, noting that the assembly's survival posed the main challenge over the past year. Winthrop says he believes the assembly's major success this year was "finding its niche" in the University and "proving it's here to stay." But both Winthrop and Maxine S. Pfeffer '81, current chairman of the assembly, point to administrative resistance to student opinion as one stumbling block to effective student government at Harvard...
...they were not responsible to the University. Out of this controversy grew the assembly resolution to seek provisional recognition from Harvard. Assembly members also plan to rent a train to take Harvard students to the Yale game in New Haven next year, and to hold a concert by a major rock star in Soldiers Field...
...think we need any major changes in the teaching format," argues Michael Nesbit, vice president of the Business School Student Association. "A few marginal changes in the amount of background material we receive might be necessary, but the basic structure is sound...