Word: heards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...anyone who hasn't heard, Mr. Edmund Wilson is teaching at Harvard this year. He is lecturing on the literature of the Civil War. The Class meets at Longfellow Alumnae...
...Supreme Court has not heard any arguments on the Dollarway case and similar cases. It is faced with the uncomfortable alternatives of denying school boards the right to approach desegregation in their own fashion (The NAACP is currently trying to force a North Carolina town into producing an overall desegregation plan), or allowing a skillful legal device to sabotage the spirit of its 1954 ruling. The question of whether assignment by race is justified when accompanied by the right to appeal for transfer is central in the case. If it is justified, Southern schools will have their "pioneers," Jackie Robinsons...
...careful handling of no less than $375 billion, that Washington and the Pentagon hated to see him go. Said New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges: "Wilfred McNeil literally has saved the taxpayers of America billions of dollars. And yet comparatively few people in this country have ever heard of him." Wrote President Eisenhower last week to "Dear Mac": "All Americ?, joins me in saying to you, well done...
Playwright John Osborne has formed his own film company to give Jimmy an audience even wider than those who heard him storm through 252 performances in London, another 408 on Broadway. But an audience is not what Jimmy needs-he needs a doctor, for he looks back not so much in anger as in madness...