Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Administrators point to the declining number of science concentrators as a major reason for working to improve and enlarge the departments. In 1984, the University had 1329 science concentrators, but in 1988 that number had declined to 1144. Faculty members and administrators say they hope to revive student interest in science at Harvard...
...while students point to the difficulty of the concentration as one reason for its small size, they say that if more interested students knew about the department they might be tempted to join it in spite of the many requirements...
Also sharing this view is Brockett, who says that "what one often finds is that an overly specialized education serves you well for the first few years but sooner or later engineers reach a point where poor communications abilities begin to hinder the development of their careers...
With the great amount of coverage that Sumner E. Anderson '92, president of the Harvard Republican Club, has gotten, I feel it is my duty to present another point of view on the controversy surrounding the club over the last few weeks. All along, the tactics of Anderson and his cohorts on the executive board of the club have been exemplary of the basest kind of politics. Ultimately, their actions have undermined the true goal of educating the campus in Republican views...
...note that "sometimes we have to remind Governor Sununu that this is not the New Hampshire legislature." Democratic Senator Tim Wirth of Colorado says what many Washington insiders feel: Sununu "thinks he's the only smart guy in town. He shows little respect for anyone else's intelligence or point of view...