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This order requires a 25 percent reduction in the use of electricity for outdoor or indoor illumination in non-residential buildings...
...largest portion of Harvard's 1945-46 income came from tuition and other student sources; but even that category accounted for only 29.1 percent of the total income. Next highest segment of the income dollar 28.4 percent--was derived from dividends from the University endowment, while the other chief source of funds was gifts donated during the year for immediate use, amounting to 8.4 percent...
Government expenditures accounted for an unexpectedly large portion of both income and expenses in the University's accounting. $4,253,000--or 21.4 percent of the income figure--was spent on wartime and post-war research for the government...
Among the regular expenses, wages and salaries accounted for $12,600,600, or more than half of the total amount, with wages running slightly heavier than the salaries of Corporation appointees. Equipment and supplies took 27 percent of the expense dollar, while pension monies accounted for another 3 percent and scholarship funds...
...first normal peacetime year, 1946 has seen a heavy upswing to the Social Sciences by the undergraduate veterans, who are supposedly trying to find out what they have been fighting about. The mefearie 200 percent increase in Government majors since 1929 demonstrates the trend in this area. Natural Science, though it has seen better days during the war, has evened off to about the 1939 level...