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...LATTER is true, then the University should consider a thorough revamping. But if that's not so, and the letter is just an example of the administration's concern that alumni can't vote without someone to tell them which lever to pull, then Derek Bok needs to be instructed of his error. Maybe then such paternalistic, unilateral decision-making will be avoided in the future...
...diary . . . little by little it began to turn itself into a story." So Katherine Anne Porter described the act of writing, and her alchemy of experience into story is as old as fiction itself. Some 3,000 instances of the process appear in The Originals, a witty and thorough compendium that traces novels, plays and tales back to their sources. No matter how extravagant the characters seem on the page, claims British Journalist William Amos, every one of them was based on an actual person...
...would like to see it's subject matter broken down into smaller, more intensive departments. This breadth can lead to disillusionment among concentrators. "VES is a real Harvard invention," says concentrator Sergio Huidor '88. "They want to make sure that everything interlocks, and this results in careful but not thorough teaching. There are only two painting courses, introduction and intermediate, and then you have to do everything through independent study...
Returning to his paperwork, the marshal pulled out the fruits of his labor thus far, and in the doing made the point that he inherited a bureaucratic mess. The files are tidy now, and thorough, as is personnel. McNeely replaced the old crew with six new deputies. "Look here," he said, going back to the early entries in one journal. "Now look here," he said, flipping to recent jottings covering a like period of time. "Four pages of tickets rather than that one little dinky one. We had officers start doing their jobs. That's what happened...
...departure caught the University by surprise, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said, adding there is no decision yet on picking the next master. "We might select an acting master for next year, so as to have a more thorough selction process," Jewett said...