Word: effecting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...legislation not as politicians willing to compromise but as academics convinced that their own field must be included in the end product. As representatives of their disciplines, and not of the entire College and its students, they broadened proposals to include their own fields and courses. The cumulative effect was one of meaningless proposals, stretched to the point where they lacked any ideological or intellectual bite. The prime example is the November 2005 report, which resembled, in its inclusion of every course across all departments, a terrible piece of pork barrel legislation rather than a meaningful attempt at casting undergraduate...
...undergraduate life fund,” which is a sub-fund of the HCF, went into effect in 2005 and was created by Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, former Deputy Dean of the College Patricia O’Brien, and FAS Dean for Development Scott A. Abell ’72 (though in an interview Gross denied O’Brien’s participation), according to Abell and several other sources who requested anonymity to preserve ongoing relationships with current administrators. Also known as the Dean’s Discretionary Fund for Undergraduate...
...seven-member Harvard Corporation, the University’s executive governing body, must approve the reforms before they take effect...
Worse yet is the documented effect of the legacy preference policy on alumni children themselves. Georgetown University psychologist Deborah Perlman has observed that many legacy students suffer feelings of “self-doubt” as they wonder whether they were admitted because of their lineage or because of their own accomplishments. Why would alumni parents want to see their children endure these feelings—especially if they almost certainly would have been admitted on merit alone...
...engine that drives Harvard, from its research labs to the hurried lives of its students. Everyone is always busy, busy, busy. It would not be unfair to extrapolate and say that this busyness is directly linked to the excellence for which this institution is renowned (either as cause, effect, or both). From the hectic Crimson newsroom to e-mails from professors I’ve received at 3 a.m., 4 a.m., and even 5 a.m., it seems that a lot of people here have an inordinate capacity to stay busy...