Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Their workings, however, remain some-what mysterious to a large part of the University community. Many professors and almost all students go through their time at Harvard without ever coming in direct contact with the Corporation. The President and Fellows of Harvard College, as the Corporation is officially called, tend to work quietly, methodically studying the issues before acting and remaining in the background when their decisions are implemented. On only a handful of issues--most notably investor shareholder responsibility--does the Corporation receive much public notice. The public sees little of the day-to-day workings of the Corporation...
...level, the complaints--often raised to state-of-the-art whining as in Graves' characterization of "one crisis after another being a president without authority"--reflect the implicit ambivalence of the presidents themselves. Alberta Arthurs, former president of Chatham college, correctly observes. "We tend to teach our best students to admire individualism rather than the institution. I don't think that's a bad thing, but that makes thing tough for college presidents...
...Women tend to disagree with Reagan's policies on the ERA, abortion, cuts in social services, peace and war, and the environment. In one poll after another, women have shown that they perceive themselves to be hurt more by Reagan's policies than any other group. For example: in 1981, $1billion was cut from the federal aid to dependent children. Most of the 3.7 million families on that program are headed by women. In 1982 and 1983, $5 billion was cut from the federal food stamp program. Women and children are 85% of the recipients. "The feminization of poverty...
Right now such polls show Hart no stronger than Mondale. What is more, Establishment delegates like Kelly tend to lean toward Mondale. "Ninety-five percent of the state's party leaders are with Mondale," he notes, "and they are the people who put me in office." In any event, labor leaders, who will control hundreds of delegates, are not likely to desert their main man. Says a top Hart aide: "Let's face it. They'd bring in a mummified Mondale to the convention at this point just to save face...
...confessing that another college has offered a better package. Says Behnke: "Sometimes the student will be asked to send in copies of the financial arrangement offered by the competing college so Tufts can study it and meet the competition." Smaller schools that cannot afford to give many merit scholarships tend to lose out in such contests. Says President Patsy Sampson of Stephens College, a Missouri women's school with an enrollment of 1,100: "Many times we recruit outstanding students who have no financial need, but another college will offer them a substantial scholarship and literally buy them away...