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...Harbor, yet Ickes was largely concerned with his efforts to achieve "the real ambition of my public service." That ambition was to effect the transfer of the Forest Service from the Agriculture Department to Interior. "If Forestry is not transferred," wrote Ickes, "I will feel that I am a bankrupt intellectually and emotionally, and I undoubtedly will resign." His wife, Jane Dahlman Ickes, thought that "I ought not to resign in any event because, as she sees it I am too valuable to the country in this time of crisis. However, I regard this as the overestimation that a sweet...
Such a plan, however, seems to place financial book-balancing above Harvard's quest for a high calibre student body. In discussing the importance of quality personnel over economic solvency, President Conant once noted that a university could be bankrupt even if the annual auditor's report showed a dollar surplus. Solvency and Harvard's continuing success, he said, depend almost entirely upon its ability to attract the best available men to both the student body and faculty. That drive for undergraduate quality, begun with the National Scholarships in 1936, now faces a $10 roadblock. The administration...
...When the Kansas City club became a member of the National League, replacing Providence. The team finished seventh in the eight-club league and went bankrupt...
...alone would warrant an extension of hours to offer at least one night a week or Sunday afternoon for browsing. But at present, Fogg is hampered by a starvation budget. Essentially self-supporting, it depends on endowments and contributions to meet expenses, and any major addition of hours would bankrupt many other museum activities...
...asserts that the modern American youth under the McCarthy influence is forced to substitute theology for scientific knowledge. "This," he states, "is the last and most extreme method to which the defenders of a bankrupt social order turn...