Word: result
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council describes the result like this: "The councillors are like nine Indian chiefs from nine separate tribes." The only informal parties are the "goo-goo" CCA, and the "independents" who like to describe themselves as representing "the little people." Even these lines have been blurred in recent years, as they were in the hiring and firing of DeGuglielmo...
...result of this diversity of background, the Council, which under Cambridge's Plan E. charter is supposed to set policy for the City, usually doesn't even do that. The direction of the City's government is set either by the manager himself, as it was in the DeGuglielmo regime, or by one councillor with the ear of the manager--a role which Crane fulfilled skillfully during the Curry administration. At present, Crane appears to be developing the same sort of close working relationship with Dunphy. An arrangement like this probably necessary if the City...
There are of course other areas in which students have not been so successful, notably in inter-departmental and more socially relevant programs. But current student frustrations do not stem primarily from these shortcomings. One result of the delegation system is that it foils efforts to obtain power, run the College, or at least be an integral part in the decision-making. A student subcommittee, for example, will never be independent of the full committee's judgement regardless of the merits of a decision, just as a full committee containing students will not be independent of the Faculty's vote...
...however, that the smallness of Harvard's full-time professional administration and the ease of student-Faculty-Administration dialogue are a major reason why Harvard holds together in times of crisis and functions flexibly otherwise. Without its decentralized framework, Harvard would need a larger non-academic administration which would result in greater isolation of students...
...Town of Wellesley is quiet and nice. But in the past week it has shown a new face, a tense, grim face-the result of a play presented memorial Day in the public high school: But the furor in Wellesley extends far beyond anger over the lines of the play and touches a basic fear felt by the community as a whole since the beginning of the year...