Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Today, Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences says Harvard's reluctance to continue the project stemmed from feelings that it was doomed to failure from the start. "We were talking about a 10-15 year start-up time," he says. Given a dearth of qualified faculty and administrators to staff the center, prospects for success looked marginal. Few Iranians held high-level degrees and those who did received them from foreign institutions. Harvard could construct the buildings to house RKSU, but staffing it was beyond any outside advisers' power...
...Planning Report, officials describe RKSU as "a unique venture in higher education." Such a project would certainly be "unique" if it ever saw the light of day, but at this time in Iran, as Keenan says, "it would be very foresighted or very foolish of anyone to try to start up a university...
...said it is not possible to cut any exam days because of the number of courses offered, unless the College scheduled three exams in one day. To start classes after Labor Day, as the assembly has proposed, students would have to miss still more days of instruction or Reading Period...
...willing to come to work on August 15," William H. Bossert, McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and master of Lowell House, says, adding that it takes at least two weeks before the start of classes to prepare for a course. Bossert also rejects the idea of shortening the number of days in each term. "It's very difficult in 33 or 35 lectures to be able to give what we're trying to give anyway," he says. Fox also says he is not willing to cut into instructional time unless he has an exceptionally compelling reason...
...fight. The brief spell after Vietnam under which American leaders sought to understand why that tragedy occurred and how to prevent it in the future ended quickly enough; today a typical attitude about foreign affairs seems to be, "America has taken enough shit from the world and ought to start flinging some back...