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...running a hand-to-mouth operation in some ways," Robert V. Pound, chairman of the Physics Department, said yesterday. "I think the most serious prospect is a tendency against using funds for student fellowships and a tendency of funds to go away from physical sciences," he added...
...Pound said that NSF fellowships had decreased significantly over the past two years in his department and that trainee programs had fallen to almost nothing. He indicated that research grants for the Physics Department had remained constant but said that inflationary pressures and the necessity of supporting students out of research funds had caused a strain...
Other outstanding performances for Harvard were Dewy Hickman, who tied the bubble record in the 60-yard high hurdles with a time of 7.4 seconds; sophomore Jerry Hughes, who won the 35-pound throw and was second in the shot put; and Joe Naughton, who won the shot...
Genteel Dropout. Except for scholars, libraries and a few former English majors now adrift in commerce, these disclosures alone do not justify the coffee-table price fixed on the book by its publishers. Pound was a good editor, as well as the best and most generous teacher and preacher of modern poetic practice ever. Eliot had already started cutting radically, and Pound cut to the bone, giving The Waste Land pace and density. But except for a score of lines, part of a much longer description of a sea voyage that Pound cut from the "Death by Water" section...
...period, roughly 1916 to 1922, when The Waste Land was in preparation. What emerges is a portrait of the artist as the most scrupulous, harried and genteel academic dropout of the half-century. After studies at Harvard, the Sorbonne and Oxford. Eliot gave up his Ph.D. degree (as Pound had before him) to write poetry. He married a neurotic woman who eventually went mad. To support them, he lectured, edited, wrote occasional literary pieces, taught at the High Wycombe Grammar School for "?140 per annum with dinner," eventually gravitating to a job at Lloyds Bank...