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Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Jules Brody, who recently served two years on the committee, says the current method is democratic and broadly based. "Nobody can tell the committee what to do," Brody says. While he concedes student representatives would be desirable, he ridicules Dershowitz' contentions against the process. "He doesn't know shit about it," Brody says...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Choosing the Honorands | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

Harvard must have a method of preserving the rights of free speech, the lifeblood of a university community. The University affirmed these rights in the 1970 Resolution on Rights and Responsbilities, the document which the CRR was formed to enforce, which pledges that the University will uphold freedom of speech and movement, and freedom from harassment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Credibility | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

...danger exists, under Klitgaard's suggestions, that we may be tyrannized by excessive devotion to a flawed method of selection in order to select an elite class based on the wrong principles Klitgaard aptly quotes psychologis David McClelland on this point: the testing movement is in grave danger of perpetuating a mythological meritocracy in which none of the measures of merit bears a significant demonstrable validity with respect to any measures outside the charmed circle...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Selecting the Best and the Brightest | 6/5/1985 | See Source »

...Senior Fellow of the governing Harvard Corporation, which he served on for 28 years. Burr now sits on the steering committee for Harvard's 350th Anniversary Celebration, and will receive a Harvard Medal this week for his service to the University. today. Between Boston and New York the preferred method of travel was by steamer--either for the entire distance through the Cape Cod Canal, which had not been open for long, or more quickly by train to Fall River and thence by water...

Author: By Francis H. Burr, | Title: Depression, Prohibition, and a Different World | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

...Ronald Reagan, the consummate salesman, tax reform promises to be the hardest sell of his presidency. This week he will launch a ballyhooed campaign to convince Congress that political salvation lies in rebuffing the swarms of special interests whose loopholes now ventilate the tax code. His method of persuasion, as ever, will be to preach over the heads of Congressmen to the voters who elect them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tilting At Tax Reform | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

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