Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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This indecisive planning cannot be blamed entirely on the planners of Twentieth Century Week--such waverings between over-ambitiousness and over-conservatism are implicit in practically any such undergraduate enterprise. Nor are they fully responsible for the program's failure to attract wide-spread undergraduate interest. For they ran into serious trouble in attempting to raise funds and acquire whole-hearted support from the Harvard administration, causing them to narrow greatly the scope of their plans...
When plans for the Week were first being framed, the program committee was thinking in terms of a $35,000 budget. Last spring, apparently, they traveled the foundation circuit, receiving expressions of interest, but no commitments. These nibbles, however, led them to plan for a large-scale program--until they returned to Harvard this Fall and found only $200 in their coffers...
Without going as far as Fore most of the large Foundations required proof that the program would succeed--more than "something ." As they could present such proof, and as their chief fund raiser persisted in judging foundations to be the only major source support, the committee was final forced to content themselves with $200 worth of donations from Harvard alumni and other private individuals...
When Foundation support fail to materialize this Fall, the program committee was forced to make a to revision of its plans--to draw up entirely new guest list. On a limit budget, they could not afford to transportation costs to bring from Asia, Africa, and America, as originally planned. The had to rely almost exclusively on resentatives of these continents happened to be in the United State this Fall...
...discussion, the found itself with more invited than it could use--and had to several of them to sit in the audio and listen. Through some quick stitution plays, most of these a chance to participate later forum, and none seemed particularly annoved. Such occurred did not prevent the program running smoothly, on the surface least...