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...powerful coterie of the Dean and his advisors. Administrators, anxious to restore calm to campus, decided upon a system with the council and Faculty on top and student-faculty bodies like the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) and the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL)--a set-up likely to be effective in muffling protest while being not overly conciliatory to student demands...
...unique arrangement that emerged was to let Harvard Management Company (HMC), handle most of the endowment and to divide about a third among several outside firms. The idea behind the set-up was not to encourage the separate management units to compete to make the most money, but rather to provide HMC with close ties to the financial world, allowing it to gain advice from the outside firms as well as use them as a yardstick to measure how well it was doing...
...loss is a loss, but the men's volleyball team's 3-2 defeat to Springfield last night was the perfect set-up, especially for those who thrive on tourney-time suspense...
...when he denied Olson's point-blank hat trick attempt, and the Wildcats suddenly turned ferocious. Left wing George White stunned Lau from a difficult angle at 5:16, and senior right wing Dana Barbin tightened things considerably as he tapped in Tom Onge's beautiful behind-the-back set...
Harvard's set-up provides "a good middle ground between a rigid system of courses and anarchy," Martin Wiener, professor of history and last year's chairman of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, said Monday...