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...reason for the trustees current evaluation is a belief that COGME may have outlasted its function, said Richard R. West dean of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business...
...simulated combat situations against low-flying missiles like the Exocet. When the Army's new DIVAD-system air-defense gun, called the Sergeant York, was unable to hit maneuvering planes, it was tested instead on hovering helicopters. The Army says that is now the gun's main function, even though it does not fulfill that task particularly well...
...succinctly: The Harvard "core" curriculum is no curriculum at all. As a neighboring liberal arts institution 1947 curricular reform report put it: "It is the function of a liberal college to require at least an intelligent consideration of a few of the fields of knowledge which the college, by the fact of its teaching them, has market as significant." Such marking requires that the Faculty define a hierarchy, establish educational priorities, make a judgement on what is fundamentally important for an educated American and what is secondary or important for the specialized scholar. The Harvard Faculty finds doing this...
...have the tools at the doctor's disposal changed, but so has the doctor-patient relationship. In the early 1900s, a doctor was primarily a comforter, someone who stayed at the side of the patient and tried to guide him through his illness. More than anything, the doctor's function was the "laying on of hands," the handling and touching of the patient in an effort to provide much needed attention...
...plant currently provides steam and chilled water to 12 Harvard-affiliated hospitals in Boston. Governmental approval for MATEP to generate electricity, its chief money-saving function, has so far been stalled because of environmental concerns...