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...rallies and fraternity frivolities-"the undergraduate mating dance," in one professor's words. The faculty fared worse. Presiding for 25 years was miserly, grandiloquent "Rufus Rex"-President Rufus von KleinSmid, who claimed to be paying professors between $4,200 and $7,500 a year while a faculty canvass showed the average to be $3,600 and the lowest to be only $2,600. "Lord, those were dreadful years," recalls one survivor. "You couldn't discuss ideas with anybody. Nobody...
...project sponsored jointly by the Student Council and P.B.H. aims at increasing the flow of Harvard exports to foreign countries. Until June 6, "Operations Booklift and Clothesline" will canvass the College and Radcliffe for old clothes and used books destined to be distributed in Tanganyika and South America...
Having already probed the progress and poverty of U.S. secondary education in a massive four-year study, Harvard President Emeritus James Bryant Conant, 67, last week received a $300,000 Carnegie Corporation grant for his next project: a two-year survey of teacher recruitment and training. Planning to canvass 1,000 education schools while delving into the quicksand area o-teacher certification, Conant hopes that his report will "quiet somewhat the discord in the field...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "The College Panic," a canvass of harassed admissions directors, nervous parents and students...
...bounty of 40? for every new voter. The goal is 40,000 voters, which would cost the union $16,000. On Election Day the A.F.L.-C.I.O. will pay thousands of members $25 each to take off from their jobs and flush out the vote in Michigan. The formula: canvass Democratic areas block by block, drive voters to the polls, pass out "idiot sheets" that tell how and for whom to pull the lever. When need be, the unionists also baby...