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...fact, Galbraith has recently called for the "constitutional reform" of Harvard on at least partly the ground that the university will then be better able to deal with student radicals. (One wonders what Gailbraith thinks of Dean Ford's idea that "we need not surrender the very concept of differentiation of roles as among governing boards, faculty members, and students" for that is precisely what Galbraith wants to surrender, although as a radical I'm a bit suspicious of people who want to "deal" with...
...past six years, more than 40 articles in many magazines, including Glamour, Esquire, Look, LIFE and New York, have established her as a prolific and competent journalist. Escorted by the likes of Mike Nichols and John Kenneth Galbraith, she has become a quiet celebrity in her own right. Unmarried at 32 (her steady boy friend is TV Writer Herb Sargent), she is one of the few fascinating singles left in the literary set since George Plimpton took the vows...
...Galbraith called attention to the lack of over-all planning in the University. "The resources centrally controlled by the Corporation are heavily committed to maintenance rather than growth," he noted. Since growth has come to depend largely on federal grants, or support from industry, there is a high probability that only those disciplines which are "currently fashionable" or useful to the government will be adequately funded...
...remedy one imagines to be a strong budget committee reflecting the full scientific and scholarly competence of the faculty to establish priorities and to guide money-raising and use," Galbraith concluded...
...This is not in sight," Galbraith observed. "The fact that the well-nourished fields do not complain and the others see little purpose in doing so should not persuade anyone that all is well...