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Stewart credits Dean K. Whitla, acting Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Lowell House, with the idea of using ohmmeters for silent testing. The suggestion came after Arthur D. Trottenberg, Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, complained last December to Stewart about residents of Lowell who, bothered by the noise during testing periods, had disconnected the fire alarms in their rooms...
...Dean Trottenberg pointed out that the Corporation might be compelled to vote some severe fine or punishment if the tampering continued," Stewart said...
...cutback in construction funds is sure to cause many colleges to delay expansion plans, and the corresponding increase in the other federal programs seems too small to offset rising costs. "We will certainly be worse off under this budget than we were under last year's," says Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Resources and Planning...
Unfortunately for Harvard the cuts coincide with a long-term effort in the government to distribute federal money across the country by concentrating grants more in the South and the Middle West. As Trottenberg says, Washington would rather "create more Harvards and more MIT's in other parts of the country than build up the ones in Cambridge...
...projects. Grants for research in colleges and universities will rise from 1.45 billion dollars to 1.64 billion dollars in fiscal 1969. The two government agencies which provide most of Harvard's research money--the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation--have had their budgets increased, although Trottenberg fears that "the small increase will just compensate for rising costs resulting from inflation...