Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Action from principle--the perception and the performance of right--changes things and relations...it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done for ever. Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience...
...contends that the academic community's intellectual freedom would be endangered if Harvard took institutional stands on ethical questions, thereby establishing an "official doctrine." However, his unwillingness to consider seriously the wishes of the community in shaping University policy makes his solicitude for that same community's intellectual freedom seem hollow. Bok has made a false distinction between free academic expression and free expression about how the University is run. It seems that when the community expresses itself freely about university governance, it is indulging in foolish distractions. Speaking of other universities, and obliquely of Harvard, Bok says that efforts...
...Well, it differs in several ways. First of all, it does add certain things which either seem to perhaps be neglected in the General Education field, such as the specific emphasis on ethical choice as one category, or added some things that seem to reflect new educational needs that are more apparent now than at the time the General Education program was adopted. And two, that I would mention there is the emphasis on quantitative skills, which even when Gen Ed was adopted, which is about the time I went to college, was perceived as something that scientists and engineers...
...increasing number of students who need it has risen as well. Reliance upon student employment represents a realization by both the University and the students that Harvard will not bear the burden of increasing costs alone; students get the money and Harvard gets the service. And students seem willing to take the jobs. Lyman notes, "There are people who can do it. We have more people applying and more people here than ever before. That has got to mean something." With a tenuous balance among University, federal and student funds, a Harvard education remains within the reach of most qualified...
Business school faculty and administrators may end up simply filing Bok's report under miscellaneous correspondence and forgetting about it. They feel their recent curriculum reform constituted enough change for a while, and students seem to agree. B-school people don't even like to talk much about Bok's report. Instead, they present an unfrazzled and unrevealing front to the world, while inside students continue to prepare as before for the day when they will "take charge and run something...