Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...that he was quite free to offer his course under other auspices, but the Core committees were bound by the ground rules of the Core Curriculum. Once this was understood, the Standing Committee on the Core had escaped the dilemma faced by the Committee on on, i.e., how to avoid accepting courses randomly, without a clear rationale for acceptance or rejection. This is what the Faculty legislation had mandated. This is what...
...Harvard Business School, an alumni group made up largely of infuential corporate executives. They published a report in January entitled "The Success of a Strategy." The document, as the title suggests, lent sweeping support to the programs and methods of the B-School. While it was carefully phrased to avoid the appearance of direct conflict with Bok, the alumni report did disagree with his criticisms on several points. The most notable difference of opinion came over the school's use of the case method of teaching...
However, faculty members have raised those questions the students would rather avoid. William J. Skocpol, associate professor of Physics and a member of CUE, insists that the issue clearly deals with a change in the calendar. He says he would like to see a complete plan for revising the academic year rather than pass separate measures in piecemeal fashion...
...address this problem, the Freshman Dean's Office and Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, have instituted an informational program on security for incoming freshmen this fall. Whether it is effective in educating students about safety--by telling them about the "blue phones" on campus and of areas to avoid in Cambridge and Boston--remains to be seen...
Except in the immediate vicinity of the mountain, livestock escaped almost unscathed. State officials advised ranchers to put out fresh hay so that cattle would not eat the dusty forage in the fields. Ranchers were also told not to move their herds to avoid increasing the cattle's breathing rate and thus their intake of silica-laden dust. Breeders protected valuable race horses by keeping them inside barns with towels over their noses...