Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate to make a strong finish in the last primaries if he has spent most of his total to stay in the race through the earlier elections. A second is the limitation of $1,000 that any individual can donate to a candidate. This reform knocks out the influence of a relatively few wealthy donors, but forces the candidates to turn to massive mail solicitation in the search for many small donations...
...process of setting up the nuts-and-bolts machinery to research the issues raised in the October letter has been a slow one, as Rosovsky himself admits. But, despite the inevitable delays of red tape, educational reform has been a more frequent topic of discussion at Harvard this year than it has in a long time: witness the great number of letters Dean Rosovsky has received from students and 200 faculty members...
There were other challenges: In October, for example, the Sociology Department's junior faculty demanded a voice in hiring of non-tenured department members, and the right to attend and vote in departmental senior faculty meetings. In the History Department, the undergraduate curriculum committee continued its insistence on curriculum reform and the changing of the department's unpopular general examination in comparative history...
...each case the challenges were at least partially neutralized, usually by a combination of reform and inertia--with reform kept within the limits of final senior faculty control of the departments...
...picture told the truth about David Riesman. Aside from being a gifted and supremely imaginative sociologist. Riesman is singularly aware of the lives and trends that go on around him at this university. His heightened awareness and personal involvement alone would recommend his recently published essay about educational reform at Harvard; these qualities are precisely the ones that make the essay an appealing narrative and at the same time force Riesman's perceptions and conclusions to be less than satisfying...