Word: harrision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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How can the U.S. pay for higher education in the next decade? This week Harvard Economist Seymour E. Harris, a skilled man with a budget, did some sophisticated figuring for the Central Association of College and University Business Officers' meeting at Purdue University.
The basic Harris proposition: if college enrollment doubles on schedule in ten to twelve years, to 6,000,000. annual costs will triple to $9 billion, and may be inflation-fueled to $11 billion. Therefore needed: at least $6 billion more yearly.
Members of the Committee include professors J.K. Galbraith, Seymour E. Harris '20, Arnold M. Soloway, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, Samuel H. Beer, Arthur A. Maass '27, Archibald Cox '34, Mark deWolfe Howe '28, John P. Dawson, and Abram J. Chayes.
Basically, the Veritas group objects to the "liberal monopoly" at Harvard and elsewhere, which allows "subversives" to slip unnoticed into the Faculty, and which permits smug and "fuzzy-minded" liberalism to stand unchallenged within the academic community. Few deny the validity of their second criticism. Among most university faculties (and...
Last week, trying to reopen the schools by themselves. Aldine's citizens plunked down $85,500 toward the time warrants needed. At the same time, the Harris County (Houston) grand jury announced that it was looking into a charge that two board members had "pecuniary" interest in last year...