Word: peering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...academic and peer pressure to produce theses is waning in many departments, [see page 1], the trend may be reflected in the advice seniors receive. One senior tutor says he advises those who come to him with doubts about their thesis to drop it unless they find it exciting. "I've seen too many seniors drag their ass through February and March, not getting anything out of it, because they didn't have the courage to drop it in January," he says...
...minutes later, two lamps peer out of the distance, gaining again. The farmers in this village might help us, but we're not sure that this isn't only a game, in which routing the sleepers from their frame houses would be cheating...
...been having since April (the last time their experiments dealing with "transfer factor" had worked out right) about their publicized research's integrity, Dressler and Potter had withheld as privy information. Now, feeling that as teachers, and human beings, they had met their responsibility to a student, peer and friend of over two years, the two biochemists had to turn to their responsibility as scientists: salvaging professional integrity--but not saving face--by publicly airing their doubts about their own work...
...something to do with being suddenly laid off for nine months during the fifties, having some time to think, and making a decision. The tragedy of Appalachia--which Vecsey seems to ignore--is that Dan Sizemore made the decision alone. "Nobody brainwashed him; nobody forced him into it. Certainly peer pressure had nothing to do with it." So up in his hollow Dan Sizemore read books, decided he was against the profit system, and prepared to keep his belt on when his kids began to sprout their locks. Fifteen years later the neighbors still hate the guy, and especially when...
...Littauer Professor of Political Economy, opposed the Faculty resolution and says he doesn't accept the others' anxieties, because he says Harvard will be able to handle the difficulties "through legal devices." He refers specifically to an organized system of student waivers, wherein students sign away the right to peer into their folders...