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...Kirkland means less crowded conditions in some of the other Houses. Leverett House will exceed its optimal capacity by 20 students this year, but the House secretary called the situation a "significant improvement" over last year when there were 40 students too many. "Last year we bore the brunt of overcrowding," she said. "This year it seems to be more evenly spread around...
...fringe benefits and character, "the University does not feel it must pay its employees the same pay as other employees bargain for elsewhere." So Harvard, by perverse logic, continues to do what it calls fighting inflation by cutting its own costs and making its employees bear the brunt of the economic squeeze. Although it is one of the largest corporations in America and intimately tied to the centers of corporate and governmental power, the University also keeps on insisting that it is somehow separate from the economic reality of paying its workers what they deserve...
...unusual for residents to revert to the "look at all the billions Harvard and those spoiled rich kids who go there have" line. Of course, all educational and other tax-exempt institutions in the city have faced the same pressures, but Harvard seems to take the brunt of the heavy artillery...
Leverett and North Houses will be getting the best deal out of the new quota system, each losing about 20 incoming sophomores next year. Eliot, Lowell and Mather will bear the brunt of the redistribution of sophomores, gaining 11, seven and eight students respectively next year...
...last week between the unions and Employment Secretary William Whitelaw, the man who worked out a coalition of Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. Said one official: "Willie has been wheeling them in and out just as he did up in Ulster." Though the unions were publicly getting the brunt of the blame, the government was secretly asking other workers to allow the miners, railmen and power engineers to go to the head of the line for wage increases. If they still refuse to go back to work, the three-day week should have one salutary effect: the cooling...