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After counting up the number of Harvardmen slated for jobs in the higher Eisenhower echelons (a dozen, including President Dr. James B. Conant, Sinclair Weeks, Henry Cabot Lodge and Winthrop W. Aldrich), the Boston Globe gleefully recalled some of Eisenhower's own campaign oratory last fall in Louisville, when Candidate Ike said: "It is high time that we had real and positive policies in the world that we understand . . . We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words...
...Conant cited the fact that while Harvard depends on government contracts for only eight percent of its annual income, "several leading institutions . . . are today operating with as much as half of their income form Government research contracts...
...reasons for the expanded budget, Conant explained, were the "temporary expansion of the student body in the demobilization period and the three-term calendar in many faculties. One would have imagined that with the return to more usual operating conditions and a reduced student body, the total expenditures would have fallen. Instead of which they rose rapidly and continued to rise...
...Conant added that, in terms of the purchasing power of the 1940 dollar, total expenditures for last year increased only 50 percent over those of 1940-41; in terms of actual figures, the budget more than doubled...
...traveling course will be a study of Romanesque monasteries and cathedrals in France, conducted by Kenneth J. Conant, professor of Architecture. Students will sail from, New York June 24 and return August 6. Four weeks will be spent touring 50 of the more important monasteries, abbeys and cathedrals is by private...