Word: worke
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Calling this tournament "more of a fun, social thing," rather than a win for the season record, Felske voiced optimism about continuing the Harvard-hosted tournament. Felske said he felt the tournament offered a beneficial opportunity for the men's and women's programs to work together...
...most important benefit for students who do stay a fourth year. Dr. Davis's proposed legislation would empower the Core Committee to rescind Core credit previously granted to such students. The ERG has been virtually unanimous in its belief that forcing students presumably prepared to do advanced work in their field to "make up" Core requirements which they were once told they had met can serve no educational purpose...
PERHAPS IT IS this hesitancy to generalize, to offer weighty and solemn judgements, that makes Didion's writing so evocative. Instead of pronouncements, she offers reportage. She focuses on an incident and notes every detail in uncluttered, harsh prose. Didion also has the reporter's curiosity about how things work. She investigates how orchids are tended, how freeways are monitored, how lifeguards live, how dams work, the philosophy and history of shopping malls. She is always honest in her examinations of a setting or person. She dams through accuracy, not forceful moral argument. In "Bureaucrats," for example, she perfectly captures...
...faculty filed out. Barnard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History, turned in his fall class to plan his new Core course. David H. Donald, Warren Professor of American History, dropped out to work on a book and the new Afro-Am executive committee. Frank B. Friedel, another Warren Professor, headed for the hinterlands on sabbatical. Thomas Holt, associate professor, is nowhere to be found...
...Field's performance. But it did not endorse the status quo. In a bland memo to CFA members, Dean Rosovsky and David Challinor, assistant secretary for science at the Smithsonian, said they had accepted "in some form" a recommendation to form a new committee to oversee the center's work...