Word: retrospection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could not allow Southwestern or any other company to interview on campus, because of the University's non-profit status. I agreed to not meet on campus. While looking off-campus for meeting rooms, however, I decided to go ahead with a couple meetings in Harvard dorms. In retrospect, I can see that it was wrong...
...happen-not, at least, during the war. In retrospect, that is remarkable. In 1776 there were no municipal police forces and almost no prisons. If a person was the victim of a crime, he would have to find and even apprehend the offender himself. There were sheriffs who could and did make arrests, but only on the basis of warrants issued by courts; there was no provision for arrest on "probable cause," and if a sheriff acted as if there were, he was liable to be sued. Almost everybody was entitled to a trial by jury, but the jury, unlike...
However, Griliches said that in retrospect, the effects of the publicity from the Brimmer report "weren't that bad." He cited recent improvements in the Economics Department in the area of mathematical theory and in the new appointments made to the department's faculty...
...budget had actually increased by 100%. Some educators contend that the quality of the state university system declined somewhat during the Rea gan years. But Brown wants to hold the campuses to "a more austere standard of living" that university officials fear may jeopardize the system. Says McHenry: "In retrospect, a lot of people think that Reagan wasn't so bad. At least he did not question the fundamental role of the university as Brown is doing...
...Peabody's retrospect on 19th-century Boston museums is worth visiting, if only to see the "Feejee Mermaid" that made a fortune for Barnum & Bailey as a sideshow attraction. Carpenter Center's exhibition of hand weaving and basketwork exemplifies Horatio Greenough's dictum that "Beauty is the promise of action," better known as "Form follows function...