Word: objectivity
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...increasing proliferation of administrators and committees (which take away valuable energy from teaching and research) is perhaps a case of too many cooks. But worse still is that each cook was given a different utensil and put incommunicado in a separate room. Few faculty I have spoken with object to serving on committees when their tasks are meaningful; but when it becomes obvious that the administration hopes only for committee members to rubber-stamp their decisions, the experience becomes frustrating and deeply insulting...
...object of the game,” according to the website of New York’s Bridgehampton Polo Club, “is to move the polo ball down-field, hitting the ball through the goal posts for a score.” Four riders per team play at a time on a field 300 yards long and 160 yards wide—the largest playing field of any professional sport, according to Bridgehampton...
Some faculty members are likely to object to any attempt to establish a ROTC office at Harvard. “I wouldn’t wish military service in Iraq on anyone,” Paul F. Hoffman, the Hooper professor of geology, wrote in an e-mail yesterday. “So I am opposed to military recruitment on campus or anywhere else for the purpose of perpetuating the occupation...
...your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give C’s. How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for—a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A’s. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, “Illustrate...
...rooms that will bear the brunt of the construction noise have become less desirable in housing lotteries. Students also object to the size of the building, and they complain that they weren’t informed about the plans earlier...