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...most strenuous objection to the proposed system concerns counseling and advising services, both formal and informal. In his recent Letter to the Faculty on Undergraduate Education, Dean Rosovsky stated that "advising is the essential catalyst of our educational system." The residents of the Radcliffe Quadrangle, with its involved tutors and four-class population, have repeatedly stressed the excellence of the advising system there. Dean Rosovsky acknowledges that the University suffers from a general problem of communications, noting particularly that "The official counseling tradition at Harvard is distinctly non-directive, though this is not true of the many informal information networks...
...strokes Harvard's heavyweight Eight down the Charles and Milt Holt pitches baseballs on Soldiers Field McConnell, Yellin and the Crimson linksmen will be out stroking putts and chipping the ball up to the green, as they work on lowering their scores. And while this may not sound as strenuous as other sports it is every but as important to the team...
...assistant. All these penances are recorded with great care on video tape and Polaroid film by other assistants, as the deeds of Ramachandra were recorded in the Ramayana. It was explained to me that since most cultured Americans do nothing more strenuous than a little bluefishing from a boat purchased with their last foundation grant, they prize something called "gratuitous risk," provided some other artist is taking...
...present economic troubles stem directly from policy mistakes of both the Nixon and Ford Administrations. The biggest miscalculation, in the Board's view, was the persistent pursuit of overly restrictive anti-inflation programs. In this, Treasury Secretary William Simon gets most of the blame for his strenuous emphasis on budget balancing. On monetary policy, the Fed is given low marks for its stingy money policies through much of the year. Says IBM's David Grove: "Underlying the Administration's policy was a judgment that it was overridingly important to get inflation under control, and it was prepared...
...likes riding on the back of his bike, affording a more than generous view of her bikini underwear, or wearing dresses with the kind of breakaway neckline generally favored by nursing mothers. He enjoys poking his mother-in-law in her prosthetic breast, or subjecting his wife to strenuous bouts of copulation...