Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life-to serve much the same function as the present Committee on Houses in regulating extracurricular life. The present members of the Committee on Houses-the Masters and various administrators-will make up this committee, along with 11 students-one from each House and from the freshman class...
...claiming direct links between U.S. economic interests and political policy as Harry Magdoff has recently done in The Age of Imperialism, Williams focused on the ideology of intellectual, political, and business leaders. By 1898, a consensus view had emerged, to the effect "that the system of entrepreneurial capitalism could function successfully only if the marketplace constantly expanded." This conviction necessarily caused military and diplomatic involvements in defense of our overseas interests, although, as Gar Alperovitz has said, the ideological and economic threads have become too tangled now to argue a simple cause and effect sequence...
...college administrator knows that most of his time is taken up with matters that concern only a relative handful of students-the few who have serious disciplinary problems, flunk courses, or are too hung-up to function well. Most rules, especially those that set minimal standards, are only a problem to a small minority, at least in a school which can be quite selective in its admissions policy. If we stopped being paternalistic about students, "making sure" they do not somehow cheat themselves in terms of how much we think they should be profiting form Harvard, the rest...
...whole community revert to the Greek university, a community for inquiry where a person stays as long as he deems needful. But that kind of university also should not grant degrees. Maybe the time will come when we can seriously entertain such a possibility. But given the function of the B.A. in current American society, we would do many of our undergraduates a disservice to let them leave here without degrees. I am trying to be practical. Doing without "majors" would be getting far enough ahead of that society for now, but I suspect that, at Harvard, at least...
...Analyst William Pfaff. "Industry makes cheap goods but wrecks the landscape and pollutes the air and rivers. Technocrats tell us all problems are soluble, but their submarines sink at the dock and scientific administrators spill nerve gas onto grazing lands and then lie about it. Bureaucracies make the system function, but they meddle in private lives...