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Even by 1975, the "national nest egg," as the Administration dubs the prospective leeway for increasing federal outlays, will amount to a mere $22 billion, or 1½% of the nation's total output of goods and services. That is based on the CEA's optimistic prediction that inflation will be brought under control by the end of 1971, with price increases cut to the rate of 1½% a year. After that, the council foresees a resurgence of real economic growth (4.3% a year) and unemployment declining to a moderate 3.8% of the labor force...
Apparently in return for these special considerations, Chokel is not given much leeway to step out of line. According to Chokel, "Almost anything critical said about the administration or faculty gets a quick reaction, really quick...
Finally, the Report urged more interdisciplinary courses in general, more leeway in concentration requirements, the end of distribution requirements (except for MOT courses), and a greater opportunity for students to work out their own academic program through individual independent study. G.I.S.P. s. and participation as teaching assistants in MOT courses in their field...
...much money is spent to what time the classes are given. There are no "intermediate institutions"-no student-faculty committees which can often muffle and absorb a conflict as at Harvard. If anything goes wrong it is brought straight to the ministry. In a system with such little leeway for evolution, any change was a radical change and any serious challenge liable to topple everything...
...decentralized character of Harvard, solutions to many of the problems we have noted lie within the grasp of each of the faculties. Debate within them has already given rise to various efforts at reform. Both the statutes and the traditions of the University permit each of the faculties broad leeway in determining how it should function, consistently with Harvard's fundamental commitment to academic excellence...