Word: bard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teviston's leaders dreamed of digging a deep well and creating a water district of their own, but cash and hope were scarce. Then, five years ago, Field Hand James Morning, Farmer John Williams and Missionary Baptist Preacher Robert Daniels began talking up the idea. They got Bard McAllister, a representative of the American Friends Service Committee, to come over from Visalia to help. For four years McAllister worked and argued with the people, tried to explain how a community effort could bring running water into their homes...
Able, hard-working James Herbert Case Jr., Wall Streeter turned educator, left the presidency of Washington and Jefferson College nine years ago to take over a lively problem school: tiny (295 students) Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Bard was broke; a onetime experimental affiliate of Columbia University, it was left with more teachers than it could adequately pay. Case moved in with a sure hand. His 47 teachers have seen their paychecks increase an average of 60%. A full professor who used to get $6,000 yearly can now expect...
...still not enough, and Case agreed. But when the teachers demanded another 10% raise this fall, he had to turn it down. Bard was still in the red. The teachers would have to wait for next year's drive to raise $2,900,000, one-third earmarked for faculty salaries. President Case knew full well what his decision might mean: the militant local chapter of the American Association of University Professors threatened a vote of no-confidence in the president. "I defend this right of theirs," said he, and awaited results. Last week they came...
With one of the nation's highest tuitions ($1,680), Bard can squeeze little more out of its students, whose total costs per year are now a hefty $2,500. Last week Bard's onetime parent, Columbia, calmly turned the trick by boosting college tuition 21% to $1,450. Reason: "the imperative need" for increasing faculty salaries. A Columbia full professor's minimum pay will now climb...
...Bard continued its study during the 1958-59 year when the pilot study was going on, and finally decided to modify the project considerably from the original arrangement of arbitrarily assigned quarters of work and vacation. Last July, James H. Case, President of Bard, announced that a new schedule had been adopted for the current academic year. Instead of using a pure four quarter program, Bard will maintain its two fifteen-week semesters, and add two half-semesters, one in the summer and one in the winter...