Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Right now, there are two economics grad students studying public health. One is investigating alternative incentive schemes to increase efficiency in hospitals. The other is studying why men apply to medical school and why they pick a particular geographical area in which to practice...
...freedom to require individual teachers to request the permission of the whole Faculty in order not to give grades in their own courses. So long as individual Faculty members are themselves convinced that the grading system carries particular socio-economic implications, each member of the Faculty should have the right to decide whether he wishes to use grades in his own course. The Faculty as a body has no more right to insist that a professor grade his students' work than it has to demand that he include a particular book on his course's reading list...
...might be argued that control over grading is necesary if the Faculty is to safeguard its educational standards. But the real way in which the Faculty maintains its standards is through its right to judge the credentials of its members. Since this system theoretically ensures that every Harvard teacher is qualified to be teaching, it is hard to see what additional good can be achieved by requiring teachers to grade their students' work...
...added that houses are "the last bastion of maleness," and the house committee is possibly "the elite of this bastion." "I'm not antiwoman," Donner emphasized. "I'm just anti-female-participation in our house committee right now. I believe women have a definite place in Harvard University and in the Houses, but the place is not in the house committee and the time...
...closing seconds of the round. Robertson uncorked what had become the trademark of Harvard boxers--a combination jab, cross and hook followed by an inside right counter. The last blow landed under Well's ear and sent the bewildered Cadet spinning to the canvas for his first collegiate defeat...