Word: weaknessness
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Rosovsky's remarks summarized what many observers see as the University's greatest weakness: despite Harvard's almost unparalleled reputation as a research institution, too often the nuts-and-bolts aspects of teaching fall into neglect. Graduate students, forced to earn tuition money as teaching fellows (TF's) thus become...
Why would highly intelligent men in positions of authority misuse that authority for sexual purposes, and with the frequency the evidence is beginning to reveal? This is the baffling underside of the controversies--at Harvard and elsewhere--over how to punish offenders. An administrator who argues, as Dean of the...
In a speech on the eve of the Tennessee primary, Hart took the huge risk of reminding voters about something most of his fellow Democrats devoutly wish they would forget: the impression of weakness and ineptitude left by what Hart called "the Carter-Mondale Administration." In particular, he said, "Carter...
Shawmut is a member of Herzog's class: the pensive man driven to distraction or worse by the messy betrayals of life. What Kind of Day Did You Have? presents a mirror image of this condition. Victor Wulpy, 70, is "a world-class intellectual" who is trying to keep...
Some such contested interpretations are included in the report itself. Certainly not all students would agree with the report's self-congratulatory assertion that the Afro-Am Department has begun to "Fulfill the Faculty's original copies, and even to surpass them." Many students question that department's relative weakness...