Word: predictableness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weather forecasters predict sunny skies over Tercentenary Theater today as 1474 men and women receive undergraduate degrees at Harvard's 328th commencement...
...nothing to do with what we were trying to accomplish, nor did the interest in the media arise in any way from our efforts. So whether or not other colleges profit in any way or adapt their curriculum from ours is something that is hard for me to predict. My guess is that there will probably be some colleges perhaps that would find their situations sufficiently like ours and order their educational priorities sufficiently like ours that would lead them to change their curriculums in some way that corresponds more or less to the Core Curriculum...
Steven K. Bailey, professor of Education and Social Policy and President of the National Academy of Education, said yesterday he is "delighted" by the Rules Committee vote. Bailey said he could not predict whether the full House would eventually pass the bill, adding, "the people I talk to in Washington say they think that they have the votes...
Elizabeth McKinsey, head tutor in the English Department, plans to take a similar approach. She also says she will "invite" her colleagues to teach tutorials next year, but cannot predict how many professors will actually come forward. The English Department will not offer any special seminars next year, even though Bowersock's reforms mandate that all students who take tutorials "shall have the option in one term of their sophomore or junior year" to take a special professor-run seminar. McKinsey states simply, "We don't feel we need...
...serving up another object lesson in how biased the American media can be. The failing this time is the same one as always--almost total reliance on official sources of information. Americans reading of the recent elections in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe fell prey to the old New Hampshire Primary Gimmick--you predict your percentage of the vote, well below what your polls and organization are telling you in private, and when you beat the percentage, you've won. George McGovern didn't win the New Hampshire primary in 1972, nor did Eugene McCarthy in 1968, but they pulled down a higher percentage...