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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshmen continued to lead all contributors, giving some 55 per cent of the total. The Class of 1962 last fall donated 83 per cent. If all pledges are filled, the freshman share will drop to slightly less than half...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Gifts to Council Show Increase | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

Adequate salary scales for faculty members ostensibly touched off the entire controversy. Able educators quickly turned away when they heard the UMass emoluments; full professors started at $6,812 per year, and could earn a legal maximum of $8,684, slightly less than half the comparable salaries at Harvard. But a larger issue encompasses many of the UMass problems: How much control should the state government exert over its land-grant college? Massachusetts has gained a certain notoriety for the inordinate amount of academic control held by the state legislature. For example, the University of Massachusetts cannot keep any fees...

Author: By Claude E. Welch, | Title: Academic Freedom and the State: The Overriding Problem of UMass | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

Twelve Russian students will visit the University for several days next month as part of a Soviet-American cultural exchange program. The twelve, half of a twenty-four man delegation spending a month in the United States, will be in Cambridge from October 28 to November...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Soviet Students to Visit Cambridge | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

This program comes under a reciprocal exchange agreement between the Soviet Youth Organization and the Council on Student Travel. The Experiment, as one of the members of the Council and as sponsor of an American student tour of Russia the past two summers, is supervising the travels of half of the Soviet delegation. The Committee on Friendly Relations is in charge of the other half of the student group...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Soviet Students to Visit Cambridge | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

DARTMOUTH: A title winenr can never be written off for the following season, but coach Bob Blackman finds himself with only half his lettermen returning. He faces a major problem replacing tackle and captain Al Krutsch, and hard-running backs Jim Burke and Brian Hepburn, though quarterback Bill Gundy and halfback Jake Crouthamel return. The Indians will get scalped on the line...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Varsity to Tie for Second As Penn Takes Ivy Title | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

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