Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Undergraduates are for the most part only passive observors of this process. For them the museum is simply a visual library, but Coolidge has made every effort to make it a good one. Years back, Wilhelm Koehler resolutely ignored the Fogg's collection and taught his course on Romanesque sculpture from battered photographs. But last semester Linda Seidel used the originals to teach a course on restorations and forgeries in Romanesque sculpture. Coolidge says, "You cannot discuss the nature of genuine surface or the problems of recutting by studying beaten-up photographs...
...students who advocate "democratic" control of the University, not even this unattainable committee representation is sufficient. For they do not want a part in the decision-making process unless it would help produce a transformation of the University into a new and independent force against the trends of today's society. This collective program--of turning the University into an entity for coordinated social good--falls flat because Harvard is not a political or even a functional entity...
...impractical to have a participatory democracy in University affairs for students and, to some degree, for Faculty. That is not to say that student pressure should not be exerted. Nor does it mean that protest over substantive differences is not a valid part in the University's decision-making process...
Unlike many universities, Harvard has a long-standing tradition of faculty control over the educational process. This is the spiritual strength of Harvard, but potentially a source of administrative weakness...
Rarely is one year different from another in this pattern of success. One team a season wins a championship, two or three others challenge for the top spot, and although unsuccessful, inflate the victory percentage in the process and the remaining one or two flounder miserably in the Ivy cellar, earning the undying emnity of the Department of Athletics statistician...