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...Faculty will consider a proposal setting up a committee to advise Dean Rosovsky on such matters. However, Harvard trusts its faculty and is unlikely to take more stringent action unless faced with a flagrant violation of academic ethics. Until and unless this occurs, the University will rely on unwritten rules and the individual consciences of its professors. And the small companies will continue to thrive around Harvard Square...
Since Thomas J. Watson founded IBM in 1924, the firm has always had a special mystique. The company for years had an unwritten dress code that required executives to wear white shirts. Employees posted THINK signs in their offices, and even jointly sang a company song, Hail to IBM* By paying high wages, promoting mainly from within and seldom laying off workers, IBM kept unions out of the company's manufacturing plants and fostered an atmosphere of close-knit camaraderie...
...alternative to banning outside activity is to limit it by establishing guidelines. Since 1966, the University has had both an unwritten rule under which no professor could spend more than 20 per cent of his time consulting and written guideline stating that professors who believe that their outside research conflicts with their university work should report to the dean of the Faculty. Such a system of self-monitoring has not led to an accurate assessment of professors' activities. John T. Dunlop, who served as dean of the Faculty from 1969 to 1973 cannot recall any cases coming before...
...sharp debate that has gone on in Fast I ansing centers not on the actual numbers, but on the implications of the actions. Tenure is an unwritten agreement between the university and a faculty member which promises a professor job security. A district court recently rejected a law suit, initiated by a professor to block the impending layoffs, ruling that the board of trustees could take such drastic action if it felt it necessary to deal with financial problems...
...when it comes to filching TV sets for ready cash As he puts it, he and his brother are both "city coyotes." Lee is also enough of a raconteur and Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc., golfer to con Austin's movie producer, Saul Kimmer (Louis Zorich), into buying his unwritten cornpone saga of the "true West." Saul is one of those monstrous Hollywood moths who skirt the flames of venality, yet never get torched. All three men are the progeny of Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, that emetically funny moral jeremiad hurled with lethal precision at the cynic...