Word: springly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...more vocal controversy this spring, the University showed the hypocrisy of its appointment policies. Bok nominated efficiency-oriented Chicago economist Arnold C. Harberger to head the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) without consulting the HIID Faculty Council--or considering that it might be wrong for a professor whose policies enacted in Chile caused starvation and misery to lead an institution that advises foreign governments...
...mammoth report on race relations issued this spring brought into the spotlight many of the racial problems that continue to trouble Harvard, though its release during Reading Period prevented much student discussion about it. We hope its findings and recommendations will make their way into University practice, and not yellow in administrative files. Most important, the University cannot remain supine in the face of its vestiges of racism and sexism, and wait until student anger forces...
...actions can or should have any moral value. President Bok's series of open letters--which deserve praise for presenting the University position at length and in public, but not for muddling many of the issues--spearheaded the drive, and successfully headed off burgeoning movements of student protest. This spring Harvard picked the fruits of that conclusion to "the South African question," as the Corporation summarily rejected the most moderately active recommendations of the already moderate Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. The curtain over the "case-by-case" approach to shareholder questions lifted to reveal a policy of naked resistance...
...spring, a House committee emphatically rejected Carter's call for registering women and eventually sent a proposal to the floor calling for post-office registration of men born in 1960 and 1961. The House passed the proposal and sent it on to the Senate...
...team passing below. "The kids don't at all understand the seriousness of their behavior," said coach Ted Washburn. This was by no means an act of revolution; it made no sense at all. It was the kind of thing that was happening at Harvard ten years ago this spring...