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...applications start to come in in the winter, some in response to the full-page ads Crooks takes out in the Globe and the Phoenix during Christmas vacation. "One of the things I like best about the summer school," Crooks says, "is that by and large people select us instead of us selecting them...
That was the most sobering conclusion after three days of hearings held last week by the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. The committee five months ago asked Harvard's Jean Mayer to assemble a group of leading nutritionists and other experts to study thoroughly domestic and global food problems. Mayer's group of roughly 100 reported last week at unusual hearings split into two panels: one group of Senators, headed by Committee Chairman George McGovern, heard the international report; another group, led by Democrat Walter Mondale of Minnesota, listened to the domestic report...
Mobil, of course, could go ahead with a tender offer to Marcor stockholders without the consent of Marcor's managers. A Mobil spokesman noted that the company has "had a policy since 1968 of seeking out diversification opportunities." Having taken six years to select a suitable partner, the odds are that Mobil will not give up easily...
Rosovsky has already set out a committee to re-examine the whole Harvard undergraduate academic program, which he feels has lost the focus it once had. The committee he will soon select will follow the model of a similar re-examination in 1945, which resulted in a report entitled "General Education in a Free Society." That report, informally called The Redbook, led to the establishment of the General Education program, which colleges all over the country have adopted as a model for their own curriculums...
Things started slowly; there were only three Faculty meetings in the fall term; the new calendar stayed dormant; the Faculty's former bogeyman, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, seemed forgotten; the Commission of Inquiry took months to select its members; and the caucuses seemed dead...