Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson writes, "We are reluctant to ask President Rudenstine to lower the high tenure standards that make Harvard the nation's finest University." On the contrary, if we are judging a university, I would argue that the current standards are too low, and that the method of selection is inherently flawed. Harvard tenures scholars instead of teachers. As a result, there is no guarantee that Harvard has "the best faculty on the senior level." Instead, Harvard has prestigious research and a student body that, from the committee's standpoint, is largely regarded as superfluous...
While air travel may be the most popular method of transit, many Harvard students have chosen other methods of getting home...
...group of researchers claim to have found a much easier method of detecting the disease. In a study published in last week's issue of Science, they report that Alzheimer's patients are unusually sensitive to a drug used by ophthalmologists to enlarge the pupils during eye exams. By measuring a person's response to the drug when it is dropped into the eye, physicians may be able to diagnose the dread disorder...
...There are currently no guidelines for filling the current, vacancy and it is incumbent upon the Board [of Election Commissioners] to come [up] with the fairest method possible," Dennis Newman, McSweeney's attorney, wrote Wednesday in a letter to the board...
...University Library has sure done a great job getting us into all of these powerful research tools--now if they could just develop a simple method...