Word: amounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could earn a legal maximum of $8,684, slightly less than half the comparable salaries at Harvard. But a larger issue encompasses many of the UMass problems: How much control should the state government exert over its land-grant college? Massachusetts has gained a certain notoriety for the inordinate amount of academic control held by the state legislature. For example, the University of Massachusetts cannot keep any fees paid to it--tuition, board charges, room rents--but must turn the money over to the General Fund of the Commonwealth...
...continuing to support a low nominal tuition rate at the University of Massachusetts, I would still maintain that the Commonwealth does not owe anyone an education. . . . What I believe the Commonwealth does owe its citizenry is public tax-supported higher educational opportunity in an amount that will enable all students with limited means but intellectual potential and motivation, to realize that potential to the utmost." Thus, the state university directly attempts to attract students that could not afford a private education--and in this respect the public and private colleges are complementary...
...manager's personal preferences in collateral. For his services in introducing lender and borrower, Clark collects 1% of the gross proceeds of each loan. Sometimes, when an extraordinarily difficult piece of work is involved, he may raise his fee to 2% or more (the maximum: 5% of the amount of the loan). As a money finder he has done wonderfully well at finding money for himself. Worth more than $35 million, he has five cars, including a chauffered Rolls-Royce equipped with radiotelephone, a penthouse in Manhattan, a 13-acre country house at Amagansett, N.Y., his own game preserve...
Since the two words "Freshman Program" first came into common usage around the Cambridge Community last spring, they have been the source of a considerable amount of confusion, curiosity, and controversy. Shrouded in mystery at their birth, they at once began to arouse high hopes in some Harvard circles, and deep apprehension and suspicion in others...
...addition, over half favor "right-to-work" laws. Probably influenced by revelations of union corruption, and the huge amount of anti-union propaganda distributed in the recent Congressional campaign, a significant group of "moderate liberals" have apparently joined the "conservatives" in their sympathy for this bit of legislation...