Word: dismalness
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Last year, the Crimson scored a major victory over the Cadets in Cambridge, the first Harvard win in the series since 1962. Harvard went on to win four of its remaining League meets and finish fourth in the standings. Army was a dismal seventh...
...schemes of social philanthropy and community investment seem doomed to founder in this dismal fiscal climate. But that is true only if ETOB ("every tub on its own bottom") remains the principal rule of allocation. By failing to assault vigorously the principle of ETOB, the memorandum inevitably stacked the arguments to support the status quo. ETOB really means that the deans and their faculties run roughshod over a relatively powerless administration, helpless to set priorities or to weigh alternative expenditures. Harvard must clearly have a systematic procedure for simultaneously appraising all possible options for raising and spending money...
...nearly two months, Actors' Equity has been trying to improve that dismal old scale. After negotiations over contract renewal finally broke down briefly last week, the union called a strike that closed down 16 off-Broadway shows.* Among the strikers were Geraldine Page and her husband, Rip Torn, who interrupted previews of a new Macbeth. Miss Page walked the picket lines in front of the Circle in the Square theater, where she had put off-Broadway on the map 20 years before in Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke. She noted that even then she was making...
Prospects for this fall were not good, and most onlookers predicted another second-division finish for Harvard and a generally dismal overall record...
...review of Harvard's investment record over the last decade reveals a rather dismal performance. Over the period 1965-1970 the market value of assets depreciated about ten per cent. During that period the popular stock market indices increased, and many private money managers realized substantially greater gains. The Corporation's review of its endowment indicates a preoccupation with yields, continually stressing that interest income has risen. This preoccupation is further evident in the one-third holdings in bonds and the concentration of equity investments in large oil, utility, and auto stocks. This concern over yields misses the point...