Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Massachusetts League of Women Voters will convene at Radcliffe tomorrow and Thursday for their twenty-eighth School of International Relations. Among the speakers at the two day sessions will be Donald C. McKay Ph.D. '32, professor of History, and Edwin O. Reischauer Ph.D. '39, associate professor of Far Eastern Languages...
...Grad School Crisis...
...third section of his report, Conant warned of the imminent and serious financial problems of the graduate schools, particularly the Medical School. Great advancements and uncertain endowments are the principal factors in the problem...
Conant named the increase of staffs and the dollar prosperity of the 1920's, followed by the rapid decline in the value of the dollar after World War II, as additional causes of the questionable financial future of the professional schools. He also mentioned the School of Public Health as being "in a precarious position," and added that "the importance of investigation and education in this field requires no comment." Fundraising for the school he said, has so far only been temporarily successful on year-to-year basis...
Particular attention, Conant added, must be paid to the problems of the seven privately endowed hospitals which cooperate with the Medical School. The Law School's problem is not quite so serious because of generous donations by alumni, although the school is now experimenting with teaching fellowships...