Word: michigan
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Before coming to Harvard, he held professorships and museum positions throughout the world, including professor of Far Eastern art and archaeology at the University of Michigan (1951-60), lecturer in Far Eastern art at the University of Munich (1950-51) and associate professor at Tsingua University, China...
...Germain of Rhode Island, chairman of the House Banking Committee, accused the Bank Board last week of simply giving American Savings to Bass without seriously entertaining a competing bid from First Nationwide Bank, a San Francisco-based subsidiary of Ford Motor. And Democratic Senator Donald Riegle of Michigan is worried that Bass might use money from the federally supported S and L to unfairly augment his corporate-raiding power. The Bank Board's chairman, M. Danny Wall, defends his bailout, calling it the best deal the Government could get. Furthermore, he notes, the federal agency holds a 30% share...
...Where do I come from means a lot more than Kansas, New York, Michigan or whatever," said Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, assistant dean for minority affairs, urging the group of about 75 students to question themselves and find a way to make Harvard a comfortable "home...
...choose a course of study. The most popular major, not surprisingly in these practical times, is business. According to UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute, 26% of college freshmen last year declared a business major, with engineering a distant second at 9.4%. Sophomore Mark Rodgers, at the University of Michigan, believed at one point that his parents might cut him off financially if he majored in English. "My parents were pressuring me to be an economics major," he says. "The idea is to have marketable skills when you get out of school...
Faced with such competition and hard work, freshmen may find it hard to make time to play and develop the friendships that are supposed to last through the 50th reunion. "It's a whirlwind," says Pamela Haber, a University of Michigan sophomore. "You make friends, you drop them." Many find that having an entirely new pool of classmates is a greatly liberating experience. Hated nicknames are finally shed, new affectations can be tried on and discarded. "Nobody has to know that you were shy in high school," says Veronica Lawson, 18, a Rhodes sophomore who counsels freshmen. "I tell freshmen...