Word: programing
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Implicitly recognizing the fallacy in their own argument, the officials turn to their alternative excuse: that an athletic program is "so ingrained as part of American college life that students and alumni alike have come to expect varsity sports at colleges." Agreed. Harvard officials point out that most schools bend the admissions standards far further. We agree again. But they have also claimed that some measure of preferential treatment is necessary to support a competitive Division I program. Here we must differ. We believe that if the price of "competitive" teams is lowering standards, we should be content...
Former Schools Superintendent Robert S. Peterkin will return to Cambridge in July to head a Harvard program which trains students to head school systems in urban areas, University officials announced earlier this month...
Peterkin, who left his Cambridge post in 1988 to take the helm of the public school system in Milwaukee, Wisc., has been named the new director of the Urban Superintendents Program, a three-year doctoral program at the Graduate School of Education that certifies graduates to work as school superintendants in Massachusetts and several other states...
University officials described the one-of-a-kind program as means of strengthening public education at a time of at a time of crisis for many urban schools...
...appearance of these antibodies in 10,000 close relatives of Type I diabetics. It is now possible for the Joslin team to predict which otherwise symptomless relatives are likely to develop the disease in three years' time. Last May the Joslin and two other medical centers launched a program to treat identified potential diabetics with an antirejection drug less toxic than cyclosporine. The ambitious goal: to block the onset of disease. In the future, researchers imagine launching molecular missiles that will seek out and destroy the rogue immune cells that cause Type I diabetes. They also envision a vaccine that...