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...assorted discounts, donations and deals that ministers once relied upon to flesh out the modest salary that went with a pulpit call. In 1887, for example, the Rev. William E. Barton was offered $400 a year to serve as pastor of the Congregational Church in Litchfield, Ohio. As Barton noted in his autobiography: "The little congregation was generous according to its means." Every year there was a donation party, and the proceeds were given to the pastor. Sometimes the families in the congregation brought packages of food instead of money to pay for weddings or baptisms, and castoff clothing...
...Talk. The brisk and blunt Litchfield, 51, came to Pitt ten years ago, after serving as an aide to General Lucius Clay in postwar Germany and as dean of the graduate school of business and public administration at Cornell. His selection was engineered by the late Alan Magee Scaife, millionaire industrialist, president of the Pitt Board of Trustees and brother-in-law of Financier Richard King Mellon. Scaife died...
...last 20 years. Last month Mellon and his wife quite pointedly gave $5,000,000 to Carnegie Tech, where students refer to Pitt's 42-story Cathedral of Learning as "The Height of Ignorance," and $2,000,000 to Duquesne. The Mellons are said to have soured on Litchfield's autocratic manner and his penchant for big-talk promotion. Litchfield announced in 1963, for example, a plan to roof over the 75-acre Panther Hollow as part of his Oakland redevelopment, and build an upside-down seven-level research and cultural center. Plans were later scaled down...
...More Respected School. Litchfield's defenders argue that he is being made a scapegoat for lax fiscal supervision by Pitt trustees. A dynamic chancellor is too busy churning out ideas, they say, to audit the cash flow. They also argue that in upgrading Pitt, Litchfield chose a costly course: increased emphasis on graduate teaching and research, which require expensive facilities and slight the revenue-producing undergraduate enrollment...
...judgment, Litchfield made Pitt a more respected school-to the point that many Pittsburgh-area residents criticize it as too choosy about whom it will admit, and too costly: tuition has nearly tripled, from $537 in 1954 to $1,400 now. When Litchfield arrived, Pitt had 561 full-time faculty members, 56% with Ph.D.s, for its 16,141 students. Today its faculty numbers 1,091, and 84% have Ph.D.s, for a student body that is only about a thousand bigger. Faculty salaries have nearly doubled, averaging $12,126, and the percentage of out-of-state students has grown from about...