Word: bowen
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...preceding years, although certainly not on the massive proportions of the Columbia deficit. But I think we are experiencing a process which has gone on at other universities and which was well described in great detail, with many graphs and figures, by the provost of Princeton, Bill Bowen, who appropriately enough is an economist...
What Bill Bowen suggested was that merely to maintain the program that you have--keep up the library, maintain the departments and the teaching programs that you have--requires a growth of expenditure every year which exceeds the likely growth in revenue which you will get from traditional sources, namely tuition, foundation giving, government grants of a traditional variety, alumni contributions and so forth. Now when you have such a divergence--even a divergence of only a couple of percentage points--you go through the following process if these tendencies persist over a large number of years. You begin...
...preceding years, although certainly not on the massive proportions of the Columbia deficit. But I think we are experiencing a process which has gone on at other universities and which was well described in great detail, with many graphs and figures, by the provost of Princeton, Bill Bowen, who appropriately enough is an economist...
What Bill Bowen suggested was that merely to maintain the program that you have--keep up the library, maintain the departments and the teaching programs that you have--requires a growth of expenditure every year which exceeds the likely growth in revenue which you will get from traditional sources, namely tuition, foundation giving, government grants of a traditional variety, alumni contributions and so forth. Now when you have such a divergence--even a divergence of only a couple of percentage points--you go through the following process if these tendencies persist over a large number of years. You begin...
Ford finally broke away. Eventually he found two ideal women-Stella Bowen, an Australian painter, who lived with him from 1919 to 1927, and another painter, Janice Biala, who stayed from 1930 until his death in 1939 at the age of 66. "When Ford wanted anything," Stella wrote, "he filled the sky with an immense ache that had the awful simplicity of a child's grief...