Word: usefully
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...Under the system, which was adapted for Harvard use by Kenneth S. Arrow, professor of Economics, the Faculty will select four tenured and two non-tenured members to represent each of the three academic fields-the Social Sciences, the Humanities, and the Natural Sciences...
...group of Nat Sci 110 students under the supervision of William H. Bossert, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics, are working on the program a computer will use to tally the voting returns...
Bossert said that the system was "so damned complicated" that it would be nearly impossible to use without the assistance of a computer. His students are currently testing one program for the election with mock ballots...
...presidents of the colleges in the Ivy League did a very good thing this week-they issued a statement saying that they support Yale in its decision to use basketball player Jack Langer despite the NCAA ruling that he is ineligible. The NCAA and ECAC have threatened to punish Yale for its violation of one of their sacred rulings, but the Ivy endorsement may encourage them to reconsider or, at any rate be less severe than they originally intended...
...use of Langer in this Winter's games bes earned much publicity, most of it unfavorable for the NCAA. Officials of this organization probably never anticipated such developments, especially since a player as unsensational as Languor was involved. But as a result of their attempt to exert power, they may have lost more than they had hoped to gain. The Ivy colleges have unanimously declared themselves to be against the NCAA stand, and such open defiance doesn't do much to forward the athletic agency's attempts at authority...