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With first term grades recently released and the second semester already three weeks underway, the last thing on most people's minds right now is winter reading period. But for Stephen L. Marcus '86, that Harvard institution is still a burning issue...
...Marcus is conducting a survey of all students and faculty with accounts on the Harvard computer system asking for their opinions on the current post-winter break exam schedule. The 41 people who have responded unanimously favor a later fall starting date mid-December finals and an extended four week winter break, he said this week...
...Marcus said he used the computer rather than questionnaires to conduct the survey because he felt that the results would be easier to evaluate. He is now working with John S. McCauley '86 to devise a program which analyzes the results...
Writers who journey through the accounts of his life almost always confess some bafflement about why he was such a great figure in his time and remains so in ours. British Historian Marcus Cunliffe points out that Washington was a good man but not a saint, a competent soldier but not great, thoughtful but not brilliant like Alexander Hamilton. He was a respectable administrator but certainly not a genius. All this and more his biographers have put down. Washington was a prudent conserver but not a brilliant reformer. He was sober unto dullness. He lacked the common touch so much...
...company can use all the sales it can get. Profits for its most recently reported quarter fell sharply. Watchman is bound to help. 'Every piece we get we could sell 20 times,' says Sony's Miami-based Southeast regional manager, Barry Mitchell. In Dallas, Neiman-Marcus Merchandise Manager Robert Ackerman describes the Watchman as 'a sellout in every one of our 18 stores...