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...staff, and building maintenance.MONETARY INTAKEPusey’s efforts at soliciting donations from alumni by convincing them of Harvard’s dire financial needs were evidently successful, as the University saw enormous increases in its endowment and budget during his tenure as president.In the fall of 1955, the Ford Foundation donated over $4 million, mostly to accommodate rising faculty salaries.Harvard received more than $3.75 million during the first quarter of fiscal year 1955-56 and had received half a million dollars more during the same portion of the previous year. Fundraising success continued the following year, with the University...
...damages. The business school raises tuition by $200 in 1956, the money is for an increase in faculty salaries.12/8: Students and staff of Harvard’s AFROTC bitterly criticized the Air Force yesterday for its decision to disband the unit in 1957.12/13: $4.5M from the Ford Foundation will be used to raise faculty salaries. Four days later, a DuPont donation of $30,000 to the University is made for graduate education fellowships and chemistry research.12/19: The divinity school initiates second phase of a fundraising drive with $4M, receives $500,000 in a Sealantic grant. A day later...
...Consider the lineup: Paul O'Neill, the onetime Alcoa boss, was brought in by Vice President Dick Cheney chiefly to make then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan happy. The three men had worked closely in the Ford White House, and Cheney thought he was bringing the band back together. But reunion tours don't work much better in government than they do in rock 'n' roll, and O'Neill, who had a flair for candor that matched Cheney's for secrecy, quit - or was fired, depending on whose account you believe - after two shaky years...
...Kirby last summer initiated an abrupt slowdown of faculty hiring after three years of rapid growth.Several department chairs said recently that they have yet to hear from the dean about whether they will be authorized to carry out their requested searches for new faculty next year.Robert J. Sampson, the Ford professor of the social sciences, said the situation is acute in the sociology department, which he heads.“We are down in faculty from our normal allocation,” Sampson said, adding that the number of sociologists in the department will be two or three below...
...After McClellan cleaned out his office over the weekend, Snow arrived at his West Wing desk on Monday to find a ceremonial flak jacket holding a chain of secret notes from his predecessor, a tradition going back to Ron Nessen, press secretary to President Gerald R. Ford. Snow's first televised briefing will be Monday...