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...turning his own collection over to the gallery, Mellon urged that it be used as a criterion for further acquisitions in order "to prevent the introduction ... of inferior works of art." To assure a continuing high standard, he set up a self-perpetuating board of trustees which examines all gift horses with a dentist's doubtful eye. Since Mellon's death in 1937, vast bequests from Samuel Kress and Joseph Widener (old masters), Lessing Rosenwald (prints and drawings) and Chester Dale (old masters and modern French paintings) have swelled the collection. It now numbers 1,721 paintings...
...growing sway of TV and hifi, despite a bounding passion for sports, despite increasing crime, flourishing liquor consumption, marriages, divorces and other distractions, the U.S. somehow manages to keep on reading-or at least buying-more books. If the number of books published and bought were the only criterion, 1954 was a big year. Publisher's Weekly, the industry's statistician, guessed that 1953's alltime high of 12,050 new titles would be equaled or surpassed by Dec. 31. It seemed likely that 1953's record sale of an estimated 600 million copies...
While the University does not always make policy by looking at its stock returns, few could doubt that solvency is the criterion for many of its ventures. Nevertheless, the administration can at times lean over backwards to rationalize policy which is dictated purely by financial considerations. Such has been its technique in the most recent library controversy. But in spite of the attempt, the Student Council Library Committee has been able to show that no matter how it may try, or what it may say, the administration cannot reject the undergraduate plea for longer Lamont hours on grounds other than...
...listed, must be student oriented, must be partially dependent on student funds, and must spend no more than ten percent of their income for administrative expenses. Now, however, the Council has decided to permit exceptions to the latter specification--the ten percent rule--for some charities. Although this criterion has not been withdrawn from the books, the Council has vitiated its future effectiveness and repudiated the principle on which it was based...
...Council's decision in 1952, then, was well advised. The recent change repudiates a careful and wisely-determined criterion for Harvard charities...