Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they solve, Fighting Progress has been an honorable American pasttime. One of the most active current crusaders on this front is William A. Shurcliffe, whose role at Harvard is senior research assistant at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, but whom Congressmen and airplane builders know better as the muckraking director of the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom...
Shurcliffe began his official crusade in early 1967, when he founded the League. Since then, as the League's director, he has spent much of his time trying to convince Americans that they don't really want planes whooshing through their skies at supersonic speeds. More specifically, Shurcliffe wants to convince Congressmen. Since the federal government is being asked to shell out, bit-by-bit, most of the $1 billion it will take to get the first supersonic transports (SSTs) into the air, the League feels that turning off the federal financial tap will effectively ground the SSTs...
...skyrocketed the budget, drastically increased the teaching load, and made classroom chores doubly undesirable. The faculty responded by giving up and withdrawing to their offices or laboratories to write books and "do original work." The prevailing belief among scientists, agency heads, business vice-presidents, philanthropists, college publicity directors and tax-payers is that only research gives justification to the enterprise. The old tradition--love of knowledge for its own sake--is not the active principle these days. As a producer of research, the university wants only productive scholars, which means specialists who specialize. The teacher has become the director...
After working in the Admissions and Scholarship Office for several years, Gunness was appointed Director of the Financial Aid Office...
David K. Smith '58, Director of Admissions, said yesterday that 8266 students have applied for 1200 places in next year's Freshman class. The total at this time last year was 7405, Smith said, adding that scholarship applications have kept pace, rising from 4110 last year to 4727. The 10% increase is the same as the rise in applications for the class of '72 over the previous year...