Word: preceptions
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...KIELY recognizes patronage as a problem at Harvard. The problem here, as with other situations at Harvard, he says, is that there is no overall guiding precept, no moral basis underlying University policy. This lack of unified standards enables the conservative tenured Faculty members--who he occasionally refers to as Harvard's "fat cats"--to exercise undue power over educational policy...
...magazine's interest in personalities, once commented: "TIME didn't start this emphasis on stories about people; the Bible did." This week Time Inc. takes its co-founder's thought a large step forward by bringing out PEOPLE, a new magazine based on the old journalistic precept that names make news. Says Managing Editor Richard Stolley: "We're getting back to the people who are causing the news and who are caught up in it, or deserve to be in it. Our focus is on people, not issues...
...International Day Care Center, 20 Sacramento Street, receives its utilities and space from Harvard's Afro-American Cultural Center. The basic precept of the center is to maintain a racial balance, with 50 per cent black children. Because the school wishes to maintain this racial balance, the $27 to $37 a week tuition will probably not be raised next year, according to director Brenda Brewington. Nevertheless, Brewington admits that salaries of staff are at about half that of public school teachers, a problem she attributes to high cost of child care...
...Imperial China, favor was with-drawn with a vengeance--China's greatest historian, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, was castrated for defending a general who had fallen into the disfavor of a Han emperor. Ssu's action had been morally correct, but he had violated another, more important Confucian precept--"First and foremost," The Master had said, "be faithful to your superiors." Confucians stood by parents, princes, and emperors, right or wrong...
...with a sense that materialism is bankrupt, many men are challenging the dualistic vision. One reason for their challenge may be the new concern for ecology, which affirms John Donne's precept that the death of any life diminishes all. Another may be the lingering vision from the moon of spaceship earth. The counterculture concept of a "new consciousness" is often gut emotion, a kind of pantheism that recalls the Romanticism of the 19th century...