Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Harris' argument is, however, convincing enough to deserve close analysis. A Harvard degree, he argues, is worth $500,000, since the average alumnus's life income is $500,000 higher than the life income of the average non-college man. Yet the Harvard faculty sells this valuable degree for so little money ($4000 tuition) that it must live in a state of penury. This, says Professor Harris, is ridiculous, and should be remedied by a radical increase in the price of the degree...
Writing in the Bulletin of the Association of University Professors, Harris cited an 80 per cent rise in workers' wages coupled with inflation as causes showing the need for higher pay. Since 1930, he tabulated, every professor has lost the equivalent of $42,000, for a national total approaching $6 billion...
...face of such competition, railroaders think that a new overall approach, including lower taxes and higher fares, and possibly involving subsidies from commuting communities to help make up losses, is needed to keep commuter trains on the tracks. The railroaders argue that if some method is not found to have the public pay the bill, the alternatives will be steadily poorer commuting service or none...
...story is told with the luminous sincerity that haloes most of what Dreyer does. He has a deeper sympathy with the burgher virtues, a higher sense of the prosperous interior than almost any artist since the Flemish Renaissance; his frames impart the spiritual light of common things. And he can paint for the ear as well as for the eye; when suddenly the sound track fills with singing birds and a music of axles, bright September blows into the theater, tingling in the thoughts like merry harvest weather. Director Dreyer loves the human face ("A land one can never tire...
...Aron is writing mostly of French intellectuals, but much of what he says applies to many intellectuals elsewhere-their futurism, their dogmatic opposition to religion, their slavish conformity to the stale attitudes of "nonconformity," their long willingness to excuse Soviet crimes in the name of a higher aim (scathingly, Aron asks why so many had to wait for the Hungarian massacres to become indignant when the purge trials, the slave labor camps, the Katyn massacre, the mass deportations should have been enough). Says Aron: "Both American liberals and the Left in France and Britain share the same illusion: the illusion...