Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guinier denounced recommendation IIIa, saying that at Harvard there is no explicit requirement to rotate a Departmental chairmanship and he called the authors of the report "ignorant" of University practice. Guinier said earlier this month that no attempt to remove him is currently in progress...
...progress was made in this impasse until last January...
...Math Ar is sufficient to fulfill half of the premed math requirement. As a course, it has status with any other; it is offered for credit; and it is perhaps more conscientiously taught than other math courses. Students are sometimes worried that taking Math Ar will delay their progress. However, they should realize that nothing will impede their chances of doing well in the sciences as much as not knowing the material in Math...
...rulers of Black Africa today are mostly men stamped in Western molds: Presidents, Prime Ministers and generals lead their nations along European lines, mindful less of cultural tradition than of economic progress. Most of the continent's ancient kingdoms have long since vanished, swept away by Europe an colonizers. Nonetheless, a few tribal kings remain in power in both West and Southern Africa (see color pages). In their hands is the survival of much of the Dark Continent's unique heritage...
...religious faith-particularly if it is someone else's. Mano, an Episcopalian, is a specifically Christian novelist. In his books, God is a respected familiar; eternity is a definite place on the map. There is always an old-fashioned metaphysical confrontation. In his first novel, Bishop's Progress, the bishop and a surgeon angrily reshuffle old arguments about Christian charity. In Horn, a priest and a black leader dispute ethics. Now, in the new book, a fashionable venture into futurism, the author yokes a world-weary priest and a profane Noah who repopulated a ravaged world...