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...employee in business or industry whose firm provides tuition refunds and other incentives for following a pertinent course of study, promising advancements and salary increase on completion; the family person charged with raising future citizens and leaders intelligently, who blends daily social relations and child development in a weekly 'upper-level' seminar' and finally, the closest approximation to the out worn gadfly images of yore, the person momentarily in transition from one life-stage to another, facing the uncertainties of new directions through pragmatic academic exploration...
...below its potential until some time late in 1976 and perhaps longer. It was a threadbare standard with which to rally a people to change the habits of a lifetime. The only sacrifice requested was as quickly rejected. Ford asked for a 5% surcharge on corporate income taxes and upper-level personal income taxes. Neither Democrats nor Republicans showed any interest. Representative Herman Schneebeli, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, informed Treasury Secretary William Simon: "The fate of this surcharge rests on what the American people tell us while we are home" during the election recess...
...black patrolmen charged that police officials made an unwarranted reduction in the number of openings for the rank of sergeant and that the reduction was motivated by a desire to keep blacks out of upper-level positions. There has only been one black sergeant in the department's history...
...said the police department's intention to hire only nine more sergeants shows an effort to keep blacks away from upper-level positions...
...House seminars have served to provide similar opportunities to students, although they are offered on a more limited basis than upper-level Gen Ed courses, they indicate strategies that the Redbook committee might consider. In next year's seminar on the "Problems of Bilingual People in an Urban Environment," the student's research will be based on his work as a volunteer in agencies such as schools and hospitals in a Boston bilingual community. The combination of fieldwork with rigorous academic inquiry offers a fruitful organizing principle for the Gen Ed program. It might infuse liberal education at Harvard with...