Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American ambassador in Chungking, Fairbank wrote in his alumni report, "During the last 20 years, while Chiang Kai-shek has been fighting Mao Tse-tung, I have been trying to read Chinese and by coordinating my activities with theirs in this way, I now find myself in a rising market for China specialists." Within two years, however, that market took a sharp nosedive when Rep. Patrick McCarran's Internal Security Committee decided that the mission of Fairbank and that of the foreign service officers, who had become known as the China Hands, had not been the mission of the United...
...David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, said last week he believes only a few schools--the highly selective one and those with small, cohesive student bodies--could even consider the idea of a core curriculum seriously. Other less well-endowed schools must worry about market forces: they could lose students if they institute too many requirements...
Paradoxically, it was market forces that persuaded the Faculty to take Rosovsky's educational review seriously. Time after time, Rosovsky warned that competition for students is likely to intensify over the next 15 years, as demographic patterns change and as students find that many public institutions offer an education comparable to that they could find at Harvard--with a much lower price tag. Rosovsky hopes the current effort will creat an undergraduate program with such distinctive requirements and well-articulated priorities that all doubts about the value of a Harvard education will be dispelled...
...first time since the fiscal year 1972-'73, the University budget in the last academic year showed a surplus, while the Corporation's portfolio rose $900,000, or 11 per cent, in market value. The endowment rose to $1.4 billion...
...face it: the inactivity exists because people don't know enough, don't care to know more, and, if they did, they wouldn't care to do anything about it. How many of us are willing to risk disciplinary action when the job market is tight? How many of us are willing to take a stand on a moral issue we consider important and protest? Or just take a stand and be quiet? Or, simply, how many of us consider any moral issue to be important? Jonathan Ratner is right in that students feel impotent in face of Harvard...