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Several gifts given to Radcliffe last fall will enable the Scholarship Committee to meet the first demands. Thereafter, the Committee hopes to get increased awards from Alumnae Clubs throughout the country. In the end, the amount of increased scholarship aid will depend on outside help, Dean Kerby-Miller said...
...political plum, plucked in back rooms of the Hotel Commander. The qualifications for a mayor, after all, differ from those for a councilman; the separate elections would give the voters the chance to put the right man in the right office, and the city would not be forced to depend so much on shifting intra-Council loyalties. But, most important, it would give the city a mayor when it needs...
Explaining the need for additional endowment, Snyder pointed out that not one full-time associate or assistant professorship is available from the School's own endowment income. They depend instead on the continuance of temporary grants and gifts...
Seiberling Rubber-eighth biggest U.S. rubber company-has not been doing well. Lacking the assured market enjoyed by big companies that sell directly to automakers, it has had to depend instead on chancy replacement sales. In 1954 Seiberling sales dropped 11% below 1953 to $35.7 million, its net earnings 79% to $215,789, and its common-stock earnings from $2.10 in 1953 to 2? per share. The company has started diversifying into plastics, and 1955 looks like a better year, with sales of $34 million and earnings of $834,000 in the first nine months. Said Lamb last week: "Seiberling...
Harvard in History. Harvard's influence and contribution will depend to some extent upon its contribution to the total of college graduates. In the 17th Century, beginning in 1642, Harvard's contribution was 100 per cent; Yale did not compete until 1702 and Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Princeton until the middle of the 18th Century; and the first of the great state universities until the middle of the 19th Century. But by 1870 the percentage of Harvard undergraduates to all students in American colleges had been reduced to 11.5 per cent; by 1910 to 6.4 per cent...