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...state residents, to make the pay hike possible. Massachusetts actually profited by the change. Some additional $644,000 would have been obtained, and only $479,000 disbursed to the faculty. Bill 1030, the pay-raise proposal, seemed certain of passage. Governor Foster Furcolo deliberated a special message ("high quality public education is the Commonwealth's greatest natural resource"); President Mather stumped the state and appeared before the powerful Committee on Education; and students rallied to the support of the bill...
...Massachusetts politics is far from rational and its followers are distant from altruism. Senate president John E. Powers, now running for mayor of Boston, threw his political savvy against Bill 1030. After all, he reasoned, "We can't possibly compete with heavily endowed and high tuition universities for teachers." The AFL-CIO accused the university of attempting to establish "its own distinctive caste system that sets up discriminatory classification system identifying [teachers] separately and distinctively from everyone else." Finally the Senate Ways and Means Committee delivered the crushing blow by coupling the faculty raise with a general hike...
...surprisingly high rate of giving by upperclassmen should eliminate the need for additional financing which was contemplated last winter...
Menzel explained that a person could watch the eclipse by getting on any high spot and facing the Eastern horizon. Best locations, Menzel said, are Marblehead or Gloucester on the ocean or perhaps even Belmont Hill...
...high building or the Anderson Bridge might also do, but the observer should be certain he can see the Eastern sky clearly. Menzel suggested checking proposed locations some morning this week...