Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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House masters, who must approve any change in the lottery system, tabled debate on the issue in March after a meeting on the subject resulted in a split in opinion and what Mather House Master Jeffrey G. Williams called, "one of the liveliest masters' meetings that we've had." They have not yet reached a decision...
...tenure and heavy teaching loads. Junior faculty members say their transient lives often leave them feeling detached from the Harvard community. The administration has begun to show concern for its junior professors, as Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence this week issued his second report on the subject...
...freshman week was any indication, Harvard has failed miserably. The purpose of assigning reading to all incoming freshmen was to give our diverse class something in common--a subject about which every entering student, regardless of background, could talk during the first weeks of the year. My first day here, I found myself standing in the Yard with 10 equally tense freshmen. Henry Adams quickly became a topic of conversation. "Did anyone here do the summer reading?" asked one. "No, no way" each said in turn with perverse pride...
...dearth of Hispanic and Chicano faculty members is especially distressing, Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez says, because Harvard has succeeded in attracting more Hispanic undergraduates in recent years. He says he is often asked to advise students studying Hispanic or Chicano issues, even though the subject is not in his field...
...That is why we have the odd circumstance of a fairly substantial number of Hispanic [undergraduates] and virtually none in the faculty," he says, adding he has seen little gain in attracting either Hispanics or people interested in studying Chicano culture since it first became a subject of academic study about 15 years...