Word: european
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...causes, or perhaps one of the results, of what I now see as Harvard's main problem; the steady decline of the humanities as a part of undergraduate education. Harvard's claim to provide a liberal education is very much open to question, when the picture of European culture that the average student acquires is so shallow, so edited, anthologized and interpreted as to be almost meaningless. From this comes a disorder and low morale among those committed to the humanities that is in contrast with the discipline and order of the scientific camp. The real cause of the decline...
...what follows I shall refer mainly to artistic culture and what is required to understand it. Similar, and even more serious criticisms could be made concerning the treatment given to Intellectual History and other elements of European culture...
Rumors that the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) was planning to make a European tour later this year apparently led many members of the BSO to quit and switch over to the HRO, Royce W. Miller II '82, a BSO cellist, said yesterday before the meeting...
...swift-moving pool of currencies deposited in banks outside their home countries- and thus out of the control of any government. No body knows the total, but estimates run to $750 billion in ''offshore'' dollars and $250 billion in German marks and other, mostly European, money...
Still, Fraser has a yen to see European-style ''co-determination'' spread in the U.S. In West Germany, Sweden and Denmark, workers sit on supervisory boards. Studies suggest that they have little impact on corporate policy-for good or ill. Notes one German industrialist...