Word: collier
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...differential treatment, however, is the fact that most have absolutely no chance of receiving a tenure position at Harvard. The percentage of junior faculty Harvard has tenured over the last century gauges as well as any figures the flooding of the academic market with well-trained scholars. Bruce Collier, special assistant to Dean Rosovsky, outlines the facts: In the early part of the century, Harvard granted tenure to over 50 per cent of its junior faculty. In the early 60s, about 20 per cent of the in-house faculty received tenure. Over the past five years, less than...
...organized by Michael Harrison and Art Historian Rosemary Treble for the Arts Council of Great Britain, opened at the Royal Academy in London. There they are, together at last -John Everett Millais's Bubbles, Sir Edwin Landseer's Stag at Bay, George Frederick Watts' Hope, John Collier's The Prodigal Daughter and dozens more. Nothing could have seemed more secure than the fame and popularity of their authors; painters like Lord Leighton or, especially, Alma-Tadema (who, while working on one of his Imperial Roman story-pictures, had fresh roses shipped to him from the south...
...services to be eliminated or reduced, the closing of the Municipal Plunge, used almost entirely by the black community (10% of the city), may cause the most trouble. It is the only source of relief from the summer heat for most of the blacks in town. Says Cornelius Collier, 22, a student at California Poly in nearby Pomona: "White folks have their pools or can afford the drive to the beach. If this pool doesn't open up, we're gonna fight...
...money," said Dr. Johnson, who nonetheless spent most of his life in poverty. In the platinum age of periodicals, roughly from the 1920s to the 1950s, it was possible for man to live by word alone, provided he sold it to a magazine. The Saturday Evening Post, Look, Collier's, LIFE, Woman's Home Companion and Coronet routinely rewarded writers more handsomely than many magazines do today. The Post paid $5,000 to F. Scott Fitzgerald for diamonds smaller than the Ritz and, shortly before the weekly's death in 1969, $2,500 to anyone...
...Bruce Collier, assistant to the dean of the Faculty, said that the rise in the number of applications in the late '60s resulted from students trying to avoid the draft. "Any male who didn't want to go to Vietnam went to graduate school. It became the normal thing...