Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between 38 and 40 each year--oversee Radcliffe's $16.7 million budget. That's one immediate difference between Harvard and Radcliffe--the Harvard Corporation handles a $300 million budget and $1.4 billion endowment. "You're dealing with an awful lot more zeroes on your numbers at Harvard," Francis H. Burr '35, who is the only Corporation member who also sits on Radcliffe's board, says...
...faculty to maintain, so it doesn't need to worry about the astronomical sums Harvard administrators confront daily, and its governing board doesn't handle the same depth and detail of business as the Corporation, Wolfman says. "The Corporation has a hell of a lot more work to do," Burr says. "The president of M.I.T. once served on the Radcliffe Trustees, but he wouldn't become a Corporation member even if you asked him," he adds...
...trustees meet four times a year, but an executive committee meets monthly to conduct more immediate business. "The executive committee does the nitty-gritty stuff," Burr says. Their composition is much less homogeneous than the Corporation's--the mix of alumni, parents, academics, businessmen and professionals (not to mention the presence of women and minority group members) make the Radcliffe trustees more like Harvard's Board of Overseers than the Corporation. (The Overseers are a larger group that meets less frequently than the Corporation and advises the University on non-financial matters...
...Trustees approve a lot of decisions that are made for them by the deans that have to do with educational matters," Burr says...
...Harvard, no administrators seem perturbed if students sleep together. "I don't know of any rule governing that," Martha P. Leape, Allston Burr senior tutor at Winthrop House, says, adding she does not know whether cohabitation has ever been officially raised as an issue. Considering that University Health Services reports it has dispensed contraceptives to 84 per cent of the senior class women, the Harvard administration is hardly cracking down...