Word: strived
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...academic rat race continues, and as long as the departments stress the thesis so heavily, undergraduates will strive to beat the deadlines, to write the summa paper, to make their Who's Who's listing more impressive. Although the thesis only counts one-third toward the degree award in most departments, an inordinate amount of importance has been placed on its quality. As a result, undergraduates have become increasingly aware of the inequities of a system that can probably never be equitable, and the cries of anguish have grown louder in recent years...
...latest program call for an increase of .5 per cent over the next two years in the number of women holding full professorships and an increase of .4 per cent in the number of minority group members with the same position. In the lecturer category, the University will "strive" to increase the number of women by 1 per cent and the number of minority group members by a generous .4 per cent...
...Fellows seem to have forgotten the discussion which took place during the Mass Hall takeover. We, the students and faculty concerned about Harvard's posture, took it on faith that Harvard would strive to become a responsible, morally forthright shareholder. You were credited in this newspaper with this change in the University's image. That faith has been violated, and the credit to you was premature. To request an advisory committee, thus encouraging management to take interests other than profit into account would have been a minimal step for a socially responsible shareholder; asking for simple disclosure of information...
...People must realize that the Israeli attack on the Arabs is justified by the fact that one of the Arabs' major goals is to demolish Israel. How can a country strive to survive without some means of counterattack? After all, the Arabs attacked Israel to begin with. Should such a tiny country not fight back...
SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY, 41, may well be in trouble because the Republicans will strive to produce a Mr. Clean in 1976. If they do so, the signs of moral laxity in Kennedy's past-particularly at Chappaquiddick-will count heavily against...