Word: reportable
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...aimlessness and alienation of the freshman year, the Report recommended the creation of numerous new "Modes of Thought" (MOT) courses. Like many general education offerings at Harvard, these courses would attempt to help students understand a particular field. Unlike many general education courses, they would not attempt to survey much factual material. but would be problem oriented...
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...
Magaziner's group released the 450 page manuscript of its final report in February, 1968. David Riesman, Harvard's Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, would later call it "a Herculean effort, an impressive document." But few members of the faculty took notice. The special faculty sub-committee appointed by President Heffner met twice a week during much of the spring, but made no recommendations. In April, the Brown Daily Herald reported that the "vast majority of the faculty was unaware" of the report...
...tenants had also asked for a progress report by Jan. 9. That day, Ebert said that the requests had been "forwarded to the responsible University authorities." and that he planned "to make another inspection of those properties to assure myself that these conditions have been corrected...
...tenants said that they considered the report "unsatisfactory...