Word: whitla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argument for such a move is that with the grade inflation that Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, says has been noticeable in the College over the last 20 years, more and more students have been graduating with honors...
Each task force may include one graduate student, Dean K. Whitla, associate director of admissions, said Thursday night...
...stereotypes may have persisted, but student attitudes toward the Houses, and the involvement of associates and Faculty, shifted as the 1950s wore on. Dean K. Whitla, co-author of the 1974 "Perspective on the Houses of Harvard and Radcliffe" and head tutor of Lowell House during part of this time, said last week in his top-floor University Hall office, as the chants of an anti-Gallo demonstration filtered in through the open window, "In the heady days of this place, there was a tendency among students to reject people who dropped in for a meal and the like...
Most Harvard administrators interviewed last week said women in the Harvard Houses altered the atmosphere of House life more than any other factor. Whitla said women living in the Houses "got rid of the hated parietal rules, which had been a burr under the saddle of so many people. And it improved the tone of the House and dining hall." Finley agrees: "The introduction of girls was a very monumental step in an intellectual direction. Conversation is politer because girls are not so bullish...
...Whitla dismisses the notion that many women are actually discontented with their status in the Houses, a situation caused by sex ratios heavily weighted toward men, which too often makes women seem not human but merely representatives of sex. "Our survey [the Whitla-Pinck Report] showed less complaints about ratios than one would expect. In Eliot, women are pretty happy. Maybe the type of women who want to live in Eliot House like the ratios as they...