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...height of the Holiday Inn presages the future. The inexorable trend toward high-rise and toward tourist related development would surely accelerate. Land prices in low-income residential neighborhoods would rise, continuing the pressure on low-income citizens to leave Cambridge. Land values in the more affluent neighborhoods will diminish as the congestion affects the desirability of Cambridge as an attractive residential community...
Finally, a group of colleagues who must work closely together must have a certain amount of mutual trust. At the senior faculty level, Harvard protects itself against the obvious dangers of cronyism by the ad hoc committee system; and Affirmative Action procedures often do widen the pool and diminish the potency of the old boy network. But there are costs in the policy of recruiting on an individualistic basis without regard to catalytic quality; and the moral and intellectual quality of a university must be seen as living in precarious tension among competing values. David Riesman...
...price of their work. If there are to be any royalty assurances, then, they can only work if they are written into U.S. law. The prospect of such a bill ever getting to Congress is, naturally, viewed askance by many dealers and most collectors, who contend that it would diminish or even wreck the art market, depress prices, and discourage new collectors. These critics raise other objections: Why should an artist be entitled to a piece of the profit every time his work is resold when an architect, say, must settle for a single flat fee for designing a building...
John M. Rosenfield, chairman of the Department of Fine Arts, said "Nothing bans the Busch from specializing, but to diminish the German emphasis violates the wishes of the donors, who wanted a Germanic museum...
With this initiative from HEW, American universities have an unparalleled opportunity to pressure the Rhodes trustees by withdrawing from the scholarship program. Because American college students comprise over 40 percent of Rhodes scholars each year, withdrawal of U.S. universities from the competition could severely diminish the stature of the competition...