Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...this regard, both Yale and Harvard offer a skeleton on which you hang marvellous pieces of intellectual experiences for the rest of your life. They give you a framework. Of course, there are differences between the two colleges, and they are wonderful...
...questions during one of the Q&A sessions. Your name will be written down and your offer of admission revoked...
...more unique characteristics of the school. The first phase is the most exciting. As a first-year student in the Yard, you will be in the center of Harvard life. You'll meet an incredible number of people and can literally roll out of bed into class. House life offers you a special place in an intellectual and social community. There are intramural sports and dances, and there are always residential tutors available to offer guidance or to shoot some pool...
...agree with you that accountability is necessary to lend credence to this electoral procedure. But I disagree with your contention that accountability will dissolve the massive apathy students demonstrate toward the Coop's internal affairs. Early in my term, I made two efforts to offer accountability: I offered to provide information on Coop affairs to the Undergraduate Council and I instigated an open forum for the specific purpose of providing board access to students and other Coop members. Both endeavors failed. The UC was uninterested, and hardly anyone came to the forum. In addition, I have had my telephone number...
...candidate resumes. Look at the "Notice of Annual Meeting" for Heinz, or Apple Computer, or Gillette. Resumes of nominated directors are always given, along with stock holdings. Most slates of directors run unopposed and are elected with unanimity. I have never seen a director candidate of an American corporation offer anything more, with the sole exception of rare proxy-battle situations such as the recent Lockheed/NL conflict. The amount of issue-based campaigning in Coop elections, weak though it is, is more than 99 percent of corporate elections...