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Ford will also double the research funds available to the Joint Center over the next three years. The Joint Center, which was established by Harvard and M.I.T. in 1950 with the help of Ford money, received a seven-year grant in 1966 of $1.4 million. The terms of this grant will be revised so that the Joint Center can expend it all by 1970 instead of by 1973. This change will raise the rate of expenditure of the Ford money for the next three academic years to $400,000 per year, rather than $200,000 per year. All other grants...
Moynihan felt that new professorships may help provide a "critical mass," where enough people from different disciplines gather in one community to look at the same urban problems and to reinforce each other with their different backgrounds. "The distinctive quality of urban studies is that they call on disciplines spread throughout the departments and professional schools of a modern university," he said. "In the case of Harvard and M.I.T., they require not only a high degree of interdisciplinary work, but also a very great deal of interuniversity cooperation...
Moynihan felt that new professorships may help provide a "critical mass," where enough people from different disciplines gather in one community to look at the same urban problems and to reinforce each other with their different backgrounds. "The distinctive quality of urban studies is that they call on disciplines spread throughout the departments and professional schools of a modern university," he said. "In the case of Harvard and M.I.T., they require not only a high degree of interdisciplinary work, but also a very great deal of interuniversity cooperation...
...sharply last August in testimony before the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee on the effectiveness of the bombing raids on North Vietnam. The generals and admirals insisted that the bombing, particularly if it were intensified, could force the North Vietnamese to capitulate. Furthermore, they said that the raids were of material help to American troops fighting in the South...
...Harvard Undergraduate Council has endorsed the letter, Daniel B. Magraw '68, president of the HUC, said yesterday. The Council has also made a small contribution to the Committee to help meet mailing costs...