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This fall, the EPC is using a variety of sources to propose new requirements, including past College practices. In addition to using the Registrar's statistics, the committee also solicits data, "for comparison, from peer institutions," Knowles says...
Even after the doors were locked, the Tasty was still the object of curiosity. Throughout the day, passersby stood on wooden boxes to peer over the white signs into the Tasty's empty shell...
Also, over the past half-century, we have had to develop a national marketplace in personnel, and this has required the development of uniform educational standards. Everything from the peer-review system in science to the SATs and ACTs is part of an effort to find ways of comparing students and schools from all over the country. That most of these efforts aren't explicitly run by the federal Department of Education should not obscure their nationalizing effect. Few high schools would dare proclaim that they weren't going to prepare their students for the SATs. But American education...
...also, without living peer, the artist of free association. Within the languages of art, Rauschenberg started more hares than he could possibly chase, including performance. His work with Cunningham and Cage, always under the influence of Marcel Duchamp, made artistic collaboration seem feasible, after the image of the artist had been monopolized by the go-it-alone individualists of the New York School. Younger artists of every kind latched on to his work, which meant that, particularly from the '50s to the '70s, there was hardly an area of "advanced" American art that didn't contain some...
...Director of the Bureau of Study Counsel and the Chief of the Harvard University Police, all stand ready to assist in discussions of Harvard's policies and procedures with respect to alcohol. Project ADD (6-1214 for resource information, 5-9629 for help with education) is an undergraduate peer education group whose mission is to increase awareness of alcohol and other drugs on campus...