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Every Harvard production is confronted with exactly these circumstances when planning its schedule. It is no wonder that each production independently decides that the same few weeks between hour exams and Christmas recess (or between Spring recess and finals) are the optimum time for production. Indeed, it would be most curious were it otherwise...
...Perhaps, in other words, we will actually be the best college and make optimum use of our resources if we reasonably relaxed about it, if we show a little more humility and humanity catholicity in our search for talent, if we recognize the fundamental human social importance of other factors than A-getting ability and high academic ambitions, and don't use the faculty exclusively to reproduce themselves. By means let's have a lot of brilliant students, the first class academic minds which have always been one of the marks of Harvard. . . But let's have some other students...
...limit of fifteen for each of the next five years seems an unrealistic and inflexible policy. No one, not even the architects of the program, knows exactly what course the new discipline will take and what the optimum number of concentrators will prove to be. Social Studies should remain a small field, but a little flexibility would be desirable—and despite the Faculty vote, there is some indication that the fifteen-man limit will be neither inviolable nor of long duration...
...wrote Dwight Eisenhower on the eve of his world tour, "has been to advance the rule of law in the world through actions directly by the U.S. Government and in concert with the governments of other countries. It is open to us to further this great purpose both through optimum use of existing international institutions and through the adoption of changes and improvements in those institutions...
...practitioner of the craft arises, renews the book he checked out the evening before, hides it somewhere in the stacks or on a desk during the day, and returns briefly in the evening to do the reading. As a result, book turn-over in Lamont is reduced far below optimum levels. By 10 in the morning, all copies of a certain reserve book may be circulating in the library, although none of them...