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...elaborate review system ensures that Harvard will not grant tenure to academics of less than spectacular status. Before a department votes to recommend a scholar for tenure, it must elicit rankings of the leading candidates for the post from a half dozen professors in the field of the proposed appointment. The dean's office requires a department to take these evaluations into account in making a tenure recommendation...
Once a department votes to recommend that Harvard ask a scholar to spend the rest of his life in the Yard, President Bok convenes an ad hoc committee of scholars from Harvard and other universities who carefully scrutinize the candidate's qualifications. After the committee's session, Bok himself makes the final decision on the candidate...
...flames. One woman owner of a colonial manse in Holland, 25 miles west of Grand Rapids, plans to build a new home if her offer is accepted, explaining, "I don't like two-story houses. I like a ranch style better." Another helpful lady phoned to recommend her neighbor's house-without telling him-because it was "an eye sore." Director John Carpenter (Halloween) will make the final selection next month, but with the calls coming in from as far away as Houston, it looks as though he has discovered one answer to the real estate crunch: more...
Robert Coles, professor of Psychiatry and never one known to tackle questions in a small or simple way, decided, after rummaging around in his library and some deliberation, simply to recommend his five favorite books of all-time...
...buying an AAA-rated corporate bond issued by a blue-chip company like American Telephone & Telegraph or International Business Machines, an investor can count on making 14% on his money for ten years or more. If inflation stays at about 5%, that represents a good return. Some moneymen recommend buying U.S. Government bonds. Although they pay only 13%, the securities are practically risk free and, unlike corporate bonds, hold no danger that the Government will decide to redeem them early if interest rates decline quickly...