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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...
...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...
Handlin calls Gore Vidal's Burr and 1876 "inventions that disguised the poisonous portrayal of the early Republic in a fantastic tale of corruption, greed and sex." In a chapter entitled "The Diet of a Ravenous Public," Handlin rips the 'factional' historians to shreds. He assails Ragtime, calling "racial prejudice the crutch on which the book limps along," and renders equal treatment to critics that lapped...
...cannot forever put off mentioning Robert Burr's disappointing Caesar. We are prepared for him by an onstage brass band and drum, but when he at last appears we see a most ordinary man (dressed up, to be sure), lacking all force of personality. By no stretch of the imagination could Cassius say that this Caesar " doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus." In the brief colloquy between Caesar and Decius Brutus, the latter exhibits much more magnetism, as played by James Harper, and I wish the two actors had exchanged roles...