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Nevertheless, several faculty members at UCLA said the cost of hiring a scholar with Hibb's history would outweight the benefits...

Author: By Joshua J. Schanker, | Title: UCLA Considers Hiring Harvard Resignee | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

...Commuting is less than ideal; having a baby at home is not conducive to studying, but it's not as bad as it would seem, and the rewards far outweight the difficulties," he says...

Author: By R. ALAN Leo, | Title: Junior Goes Home To Wife, Baby and Rock Band | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

THERE ARE SEVERAL reasons for Bok to endorse the Gomes Committee proposal vocally and wholeheartedly. Following his administration's characteristic cost-benefit approach, it would seem that the benefits far outweight the meager costs associated with the establishment of this halfway measure. He should recognize that since Harvard boasts the highest reputation of any school in the country, every University president has a vested interest in maintaining that prestige, in preserving the status quo. Bok has succeeded admirably in avoiding risk and minimizing conflict, but he has arrived at a critical moment. If the carefully constructed equilibrium at Harvard...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: For a Firm Foundation | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...fault then seems to lie not with the concentrations' desires to limit their benefits to those with an interest in the subject, but with the structure of Harvard education, in which departmental sovereignty and economic efficiency can outweight the educational interests of Harvard's primary consumers, its students...

Author: By Steven Reed, | Title: The Honors Major Sweepstakes | 10/23/1973 | See Source »

...costs of such accurate demonstration identification far outweight the benefits it would have to Bowie and others who are gung-ho on prosecuting. The University would more and more take on the atmosphere of a police state with increasing polarization between the Administration and students. The number of CRR hearings would skyrocket as students could justifiably demonstrate that the Administration was engendering a fascist community...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: The CRR Empty Evidence | 5/21/1970 | See Source »

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