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...course, one can always ask why the University would not simply dig into its own resources and contribute the remaining $3-4 million required to create a stabilization fund and complete the new building.... I can only say that present conditions are extraordinarily unfavorable for making additional contributions of this magnitude. The Reagan administration is making truly massive cuts in federal funds for higher education. Inflation continues to drive up costs more rapidly than our endowment income. Economic prospects are not favourable, avoid further erosion in the real income of our faculty, and maintain the Houses' and other existing facilities...
...nowhere. Author William Alfred, Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of the humanities at Harvard, launched her on the road to stardom in his play Hogan's Goat, about political shenanigans among the Brooklyn Irish in the 1890s. Now back on the same turf, Alfred mounts a sentimental archaeological dig for nostalgic relics dating from the years 1923 through...
...course, one can always ask why the University would not simply dig into its own resources and contribute the remaining $3-4 million required to create a stabilization fund and complete the new building....I can only say that present conditions are extraordinarily unfavorable for making additional contributions of this magnitude. The Reagan administration is making truly massive cuts in federal funds for higher education. Inflation continues to drive up costs more rapidly than our endowment income. Economic prospects are not favorable. We will need to do everything we can simply to maintain our financial aid programs, avoid further erosion...
...course, one can always ask why the University would not simply dig into its own resources and contribute the remaining $3 or $4 million required," to complete the building. Bok stated "I can only say that present conditions are extraordinarily unfavorable for making additional contributions of this magnitude...
Reader Anne Plossl, in response to your article "Some Bones of Contention," wrote to ask [Jan. 11], "If white men wanted to learn about their own history, would they dig up Arlington National Cemetery?" The answer is yes-if anything could be learned. White men have been unearthing the bones of their ancestors for decades: in Ireland, in Greece and in Egypt, just to name a few areas...