Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People are also poorly treated in municipal housing projects, Gellhorn added. "The process for expelling people from public housing is perfectly absurd and something should be done about it," he said...
Monro reiterated his position that the old system of choice weakened the House system by making the freshman selection process a "popularity contest." He declared firmly that "there's no disposition in the House assignment committee to go back to choice...
Laziness breeds genius, so linguists have developed a way to avoid some of the work in this process. When the same word appears again later on in the same work, the machine assumes that the same meaning is most likely to be desired; so it projects this choice more brightly than all the others, and will automatically use that meaning unless the observer indicates otherwise with...
...elimination of all sign-outs. Girls who are under 18 live in separate dorms and the school does have a certain responsibility for their supervision. But for the college-age girls who come from other colleges--and who, after all, are subjected to at least a potentially selective admission process--the rules are unnecessary and hypocritical. For the few Cliffies who live in the dorms, they are even more burdensome...
Aside from his preference for rural living, Parry is almost euphoric about his return to Harvard. He describes the Harvard community as "very pleasant, perhaps the greatest concentration of interesting people anywhere in the universe." Parry finds only one major deficiency in the Harvard educational process--he thinks that Harvard students, particularly freshmen and sophomores in his course, History 174, "do not express themselves clearly or briefly enough." American secondary schools and colleges, he explained, do not give their students enough practice, drill, and criticism in expository writing...