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While this is not a new problem, the Committee recommends that each department review its practices as they affect this relationship. Teaching responsibilities, committee assignments, research opportunities, space allocations, closer relations with senior colleagues, and measures to assist placement no doubt all affect the atmosphere of a department and its attractiveness to young scholars...
...tradition of departmental autonomy is inviolable here, and predictably the Committee does not try to tell the History or Government departments how they should behave toward their junior faculty. It recommends merely "that each department review its practice as they affect this relationship," and that Dean Ford request the results of these reports from certain departments. Instructors cannot vote now in the Faculty; and the Committee would retain that rule, requiring three years of service from an assistant professor before he is given the vote...
...WORKED on many projects which affect Harvard students. One study they did with Arthur D. Little was based on the question: if New Hampshire raises the taxes on cigarettes and liquor, would they lose income from student buyers? When the study revealed that higher taxes would make no significant difference in quantity of sales, the Granite State promptly upped its rates...
...aware of IGS's existence. Although much of its work does not affect us, some of its projects involve us directly. You know that new privately-financed stadium that may be built one of these days? When and it that day comes, you can thank IGS for the finished product, because they proved to the Commonwealth Stadium Associates that it was economically feasible
...them to train without pain. A normally sore horse will usually run better if his legs do not hurt, and unscrupulous trainers have used Butazolidin to run such animals "hot and cold"-sometimes giving them the drug, sometimes withholding it, in order to vary the horses' performance and affect the betting odds. To stop that practice, every major racing state now requires that no trace of Butazolidin remain in a horse's system on the day of a race. Kentucky was the last state to pass such a law; it did so in 1962, two years after...