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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If you looked at Harvard's administrative structure as a combination of the features of two unforgettable buildings, the Science Center and Memorial Hall, you wouldn't be far off. The University bureaucracy has in the past decade acquired the streamlined, ultramodern but still sprawling look that characterizes the steel...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The College's Bevy of Bureaucrats | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

The Freshman Dean's Office is a small satrapy by Harvard standards--and, having recently moved out of University Hall to Prince House, on Prescott St, it's out of the mainstream of the College administration. But as the only office devoted entirely to the care and feeding of freshmen...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The College's Bevy of Bureaucrats | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

When you have specific questions during Freshman Week or therafter--about advanced standing requirements, about extracurricular activities, about your psychotic roommate who threatened your life--you're much better off approaching a middle-level bureaucrat on his own turf than shooting too high. These men tend to share a thorough...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The College's Bevy of Bureaucrats | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

Cambridge community reaction to the purchase will depend on what Harvard eventually does with the land, Vickery said. "If it's just another piece of property off the tax rolls, that wouldn't be good," he said, but if Harvard builds new housing or parking space there might be little...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: University Completes Deal to Purchase Gulf Oil Station and Lot for $750,000 | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

That was the highlight of Freshman Week in Stoughton Hall. It was not entirely unheralded: I had had premonitions of disaster when I climbed up the four very long flights to my cavernous one-room double and stared at my roommate with the calculator looped around her belt. I had...

Author: By Susand D. Chira, | Title: Welcome to my Night-mare | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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