Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increasing the income by enlarging the endowment fund, President Conant recognized the need for a major effort in this direction last June when be told the alumni at commencement that the University would need $90 million in the near future. Since then, although no concerted drive has been undertaken, he has appointed a special assistant whose job is fundamentally concerned with boosting the endowment fund. But the pain with which the money for the Lamont Library is being extracted from reluctant alumni, as well as the timidity that characterized the War Memorial Committee whenever large sums of money were mentioned...
Granting that students must accept the inevitability of the tuition boost, it is at the same time imperative that the College accept the increased responsibility toward students that the boost will involve. To begin with, the administration must exert every effort to keep the rise as small as possible. It must then set up competent machinery to deal fairly and generously with hardship cases caused by this rise. It must maintain the standards of its Student Employment Office at the very highest level. And finally, it must administer its scholarship funds, some of which have grown substantially during...
...Decreased enrollment next year will drastically reduce total revenue, since the Faculty "depends more on tuition income than on endowments." College registration will roll back to 5100 next fall and 4700 next spring in an effort to reduce the drain on teaching facilities...
...voiced over the objections of nearly half of those present. Although the tactics employed by that minority were hardly in line with our democratic ideals, it must be said that at no time, even through responsible representatives, were the very real arguments of the proponents of U.M.T. allowed. The effort was made to answer a direct question only to be stopped by the gendarmerie while the questioner was allowed to continue...
...civilian moments reminiscent of them, Miller achieves less effective results. The totality of meaning which is his obvious design simply does not come off; but in the separate incidents employed there are still personality creations packing enough wallop within themselves to negate their failure in terms of the whole effort. During a nightmare of battle, for example, Peter gains enduring respect for the unique integrity of Gene Wenisloski--an emotional attachment extending beyond Wenisloski's death under fire. And Peter's brief stop in Chicago to look up Harry Myers, renegade Communist turned boy's settlement leader, burns with...