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...granting lifetime appointments to faculty members, a guarantee once considered necessary to protect academic freedom. Luckily, Harvard has been spared much of this turmoil. No one has seriously proposed abolishing tenure at Harvard; nor should they. Tenure is not perfect, but the benefits of ensuring job security for Faculty outweigh the costs...
...harm done by the effort to discover even a single clandestine Party member would outweigh any possible benefit," Conant said in a Commencement day speech to the Foundation for Advanced Study and Research in Princeton...
...harm done by the effort to discover even asingle clandestine Party member would outweigh anypossible benefit," Conant said in a Commencementday speech to the Foundation for Advanced Studyand Research in Princeton...
...reasonable cost-benefit analysis demonstrates that the intensive annual Spring re-lawning probably costs more than it is worth. Marty might agree, and so should this year's Commencement speaker, Alan Greenspan. Unless, that is, this superficial cost-benefit analysis is wrong, and the grasseous benefits do outweigh the pain-in-the-asseous costs. Giving Harvard the benefit of the doubt, there must be some intangible attributes of the grass not captured in the it's-a-pain, what's-the-point model...
...reasonable cost-benefit analysis demonstrates that the intensive annual Spring re-lawning probably costs more than it is worth. Marty might agree, and so should this year's Commencement speaker, Alan Greenspan. Unless, that is, this superficial cost-benefit analysis is wrong, and the grasseous benefits do outweigh the pain-in-the-asseous costs. Giving Harvard the benefit of the doubt, there must be some intangible attributes of the grass not captured in the it's-a-pain, what's-the-point model...