Word: processes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loring Conant Jr. '61, president of the Harvard Glee Club Foundation, pointed out that in any transition process there are casualties. "This has been rougher than any transition period before because Jim [Marvin] is the first conductor hired from outside Harvard," Conant said. "To look at it objectively, Jim is an unwanted guest. If the students had had their choice, they would have kept John Adams. With that background, Jim certainly didn't have a red carpet that was just lush with welcome. It's shame, because he has had a wealth of musical experience...
...David summit, one of the most inauspicious confrontations in years. Not only did the two leaders meet in a spirit of tension, but the meeting itself was agreed upon only after a series of misunderstandings and misfortunes. Yet on it probably hung the last slim hope of the peace process that Egypt's President Anwar Sadat had begun by his "sacred mission" to Jerusalem in November of 1977. Since then, even since Camp David, drastic changes had jeopardized prospects of peace in the Middle East. The latest of these, the Islamic revolution in Iran, had cut off half...
...appointments until departments make tangible exertions toward increasing Faculty involvement in tutorials. Bowersock is counting on this "power of persuasion" to give teeth to the reforms. Nonetheless, dangling additional faculty appointments before department heads does not address the central issue. Faculty attitude toward the personalized approach of the tutorial process must change, not the shape or size of the reward offered to departments to lure them back to teaching...
...programming, the commission suggests that the Endowment, a semi-autonomous division of the Trust, exist solely to concentrate on developing and financing new programs for noncommercial television and radio. The commission also suggests marked changes in nominating procedures for Trust officers to replace "the uneven and politically vulnerable process" which currently governs appointments...
Bowersock, who will appear before the CUE, said he did not have a proposal prepared for the committee, but was "thinking along the lines" of a review process for controversial independent study courses...