Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHILE THE ED SCHOOL SEEMS to have espoused the theory that practice makes perfect for its students, financial limitations restrict the kinds of students it can attract. As one of Harvard's poorest schools, with only an $8 million endowment, the Ed School is having serious problems providing enough financial aid for all its students, especially minorities and international students. The school's endowment is this low because Ed School alumni can't afford to give as much as graduates of the Med or Law schools--forcing the school to rely on tuition money to pay its expenses. Although last...
...prepare persons to work in school systems and help the schools make intelligent use of the plethora of new hardware and software currently being offered to them. Expertise, particularly intelligent skepticism about the new technologies, is in short supply, and we hope that such a program will both attract good students and be useful to them...
...third network-linked cable service to collapse in little more than a year. The Entertainment Channel, which was financed in part by NBC's parent corporation, RCA, failed to attract subscribers. CBS Cable, a cultural channel, reached 5 million households but, like SNC, did not attract enough advertisers. Chairman Daniel Ritchie of Westinghouse Broad casting and Cable attributed SNC's woes to aggressive competition. Since SNC's debut, ABC, CBS and NBC have added a to tal of 33 hours a week of late-night and early-morning news shows. Thus, says Ritchie, "the availability of commercial...
...other analysts predicted that the two CNN services would soon attract more advertising and charge cable operators a larger fee per subscriber. Said Bonnie Cook of a Nashville securities firm, Bradford & Co.: "Now Turner is the only game in town." Cook predicts that Turner's news services could rebound from combined losses of $15 million this year to a 1984 profit of $2 million or more as a result of the SNC deal...
...that such accomplishments as the storage report and the Core report have established the Undergraduate Council as a service organization, will it take students away from the House Committees? Not necessarily, observers say. Both committee members and Masters say that the House Committee can attract students who would not be attracted to the council...