Word: funding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the Harvard pension plan, however, the longer a professor remains an active lecturer the larger is his pension. Under the present system, the University contributes 12 1/2 per cent of the professor's yearly salary to a pension fund that is turned over to the professor upon his retirement. Formerly, the professor himself used to put 5 per cent of his salary into the fund, with the University providing the remaining 7 1/2 per cent. As it stands now, the professor actually receives 12 1/2 per cent of his salary annually, while a member of the Faculty...
Membership in the Commission on the Rights, Liberties, and Responsibilities of the American Indian is the only time-consuming activity Professor Schlesinger has allowed himself. This commission was established by the Fund for the Republic after Congress in 1953 resolved to abolish all Indian reservations as soon as possible. The commission's job is to visit the Indians and see if they are ready to be integrated into society. This work naturally takes the professor away from Cambridge part of the time...
Mayor Clough (rhymes with tough) suddenly began lambasting everyone and everything in sight, from the United Fund charity ("a legalized racket") to the highly prized local University of Texas Medical School ("a bunch of quacks"). He attempted, unsuccessfully, to cover up a $40,000 shortage of city funds, and two months ago he drove a citizen from city hall at pistol point...
...heroine of course cannot raise that kind of money-but the public can and does. Aroused by the brave little woman's battle with the corporate dragon, millions of televiewers produce a deluge of dimes for a fight-the-villain fund. With Odyssean shrewdness, Kovacs pretends to yield. He makes the heroine a present of the train. Unfortunately, he announces with an evil snicker, that leaves him without a train to serve the town. The horrified townspeople turn against the heroine. Has the villain triumphed? As far as the spectator is concerned, there was never any contest. Who could...
Though it failed to block the lectures, this campaign was not without its effects. The Harvard Administration was quite thoroughly alienated by what it considered a vindictive and useless attack. Edwin Ginn '18, an agent of the Harvard Fund, dramatically resigned his post in protest against Oppenheimer's appointment. A group of undergraduates revived a small organization called the Harvard Athenaeum in support of Veritas and later the Committee gave financial support to the conservative review Fortnightly...