Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mandatory retirement law is passed without a provision exempting tenured faculty, universities would lose their capacities to renew their faculties with younger academics bringing new perspectives and study concerns to their fields...
...generation of younger academics, already caught in the demographic crunch which has left too few college students and too many Ph.D.s, would find their job prospects during the coming decade reduced to practically zero. Minorities and women, who currently make up a minute percentage of all tenured professors, would continue to find their rise through the ranks of academia effectively blocked...
Nevertheless, Alexandra says her life as a student remains important to her. She comes from a very "Harvard" family, and grew up in Newton; all her life, she says her parents and younger sister expected her to go to Harvard and on to some professional career--lawyer, most likely. While that is still possible (Alexandra says she is very interested in legal aspects of government), it appears increasingly less likely that she will be able to give up her career in show...
CELTICS FANS OF ALL AGES will doubtless enjoy this book, for it dwells on the glory days of a franchise that still ranks among the best. Indeed, all basketball fans will probably like Red's story even if he is always right. To a younger generation of fans who know Auerbach as the guy who smokes cigars while showing you how to shoot a lay-up between halves of nationally televised NBA games, a whole new world will be opened. So buy this book for your father or your kid brother for his birthday. Like all sports books, they...
Stephens at times finds his relations with younger students somewhat unreal. He belongs, essentially, to a different social and political generation from most current undergraduates. In the spring of 1968, when King was assassinated, Detroit exploded in rage, and Stephens was preparing to enter Harvard as a freshman, today's freshman class members were sitting attentively in the third grade of elementary school. "At times, I feel like a relic," Stephens says. Still, he adds that he appreciates the respect others at Harvard have shown him. Oftentimes, Stephens says, other students ask him his opinion on social questions; many question...