Word: quicked
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Cabot says that terms like "conservative" and "aggressive" are bandied about loosely; he seems to favor the word "prudent," explaining that because of the importance of investments earnings to the University's income, Harvard will always operate using prudent investment strategies. But Cabot is quick to recall the long-term picture: "We won't be able to accomplish for Harvard what we want to in the long term if we are conservative, I don't think we're stodgy investors. We're aggressive with some degree of prudence...
Saying that the CPC has experienced "good, steady progress," Atkinson takes pride in noting that the committee has gotten about 75 discoveries and inventions patented. He is quick to add that it has found an equal number of patentable ideas. In addition, it has begun to investigate possible changes in the University's existing policy on copyrights, which cover such expanding fields as computer software and audio-visual work. "The committee is a better committee now than it ever has been," Atkinson says...
...lucky if anyone even notices I'm there. Lazar says now, quick to point out that the work is not "an ego thing where you think you can make the big difference." Rather, it's "hand-aid work"--casing surface problems and encouraging individual students...
...extent of the movement and its ability to persist despite the intransigence and sometimes outright hostility of University officials and undergraduates. "I think the reason our movement is so successful is that gay students feel such a real, urgent and personal need for support." Contrasting gay activism with the quick rise and fall of the South African Solidarity Committee, a student group that protested Harvard's investments in companies that do business in South Africa. Schatz observes that discrimination and exploitation in South Africa, "though just as real, is not as real to the people protesting it." Gays at Harvard...
...American studies at the University. Academically, the interdisciplinary nature of the departmental program has discouraged scholars from leaving positions at other universities. Afro-American studies at Harvard has emphasized the need for as broad as possible a perspective on the experience of Afro-Americans, a goal that Huggins is quick to affirm: "The type of program I've tried to establish is not the normal curriculum for a program in Afro-American studies." Adding that most universities' programs have "a history and culture bias," he says. "We're trying to involve other social sciences in the curriculum." This approach would...