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...Council has taken a small but important step in battling Harvard's Institutional Inertia. It shouldn't stop, however, at simply suggesting a shorter exam period--it should also suggest changes in our insanely protracted reading period...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: I'm Not Reading | 5/1/1991 | See Source »

...luckier than many teachers. During this spring season of fiscal bloodletting, school ) districts are slicing budgets, and a sense of panic is spreading. One by one, districts are cutting foreign languages, art and music classes, even after- school sports. Class sizes are expanding, and the school year is getting shorter. And every one of these trends is about to get worse, as states are forced to choose between extra cops or extra classrooms, health care or welfare, higher taxes or less of everything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starving The Schools | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...formed. Committee Chair and spokesperson Charles P. Slichter '45 had no comment. A few months later, a preliminary list of candidates was revealed. Slichter had no comment. In November, the committee met with a few undergraduates. Slichter did not attend and was unavailable for comment. In January, a shorter list was published. Slichter remained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Day Slichter Spoke | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...Donald, his biography is much more major. It is the capstone of his career," Gienapp says. "My work fills the need for an up-to-date biography suitable for college courses, a shorter one that will be more widely used in the classroom...

Author: By Roger G. Kuo, | Title: Daring to Do Lincoln | 3/14/1991 | See Source »

...Harvard, which has traditionally had trouble in the narrow confines of Beantown's sports asylum, the Garden is far from wide-open Bright Center--where the Crimson owns a 11-2-1 record. Therefore, to prepare for tonight's ice surface--which is 25 feet shorter and seven feet narrower than Bright (not to mention the snail's pace of the Garden ice)--Tomassoni has been shuttling his squad to smaller rinks all over Boston...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: The Curse of Causeway St. | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

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