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...government employees, spiraling pension costs, and the liquidation of state bonds with delayed maturation dates. Meanwhile, expanded state aid to cities and towns is urgently needed, he insists, to counter seriously inadequate municipal services and to reduce the tax on real property--currently standing at a per capita level higher than any other state in the nation. In all, his January budget message called for a $423-million outlay for next year (compared to ex-Governor Herter's last budget of $387 million). Furcolo's recommendations would require $130 million in new revenue, of which $75 million would be returned...
Dean's List standing was achieved by a substantially higher number of students at Radcliffe than at Harvard again last semester, according to Harvard Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28, and Dean Wilma A. Kerby-Miller...
Amid the heady sentimentalities scheduled for Carnegie Hall this Friday, the University will open its campaign for what President Pusey has called "the largest sum ever sought for the support of higher education." With its extensive requirements for the expansion of the College's physical plant and teaching facilities, the President's Program will no doubt determine the direction of Harvard's evolution through the next several decades. Yet in the midst of all the impending plenty of this Great Educational Barbecue, the President's comprehensive recommendations seem to have glossed over one small but significant area of long-time...
...value of geography was recognized about the turn of this century, although the subject has been a part of serious higher education since classical times. From Harvard, it spread rapidly over the country. At present, many major universities including Yale, Chicago, and California are expanding their departments. Geography at Harvard reached its peak of eight faculty members in 1928, and continued at this level until 1948. In 1948, the University, in effect, abandoned the teaching of geography. The reason given was: "Harvard cannot hope to have strong departments in everything...
This continuing cost-price squeeze on agriculture chilled but did not demolish the optimism that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson has been displaying about farm prospects. Benson still insists that farmers stand to average somewhat higher prices and incomes than in 1956. Buttressing his opinion were some hopeful facts. Hog and cattle prices are better than last year; the broiler industry appears to be overcoming a surplus problem, and dairymen are producing and selling more than last year. The Government's price-depressing hoard of surplus wheat, cotton and corn is slowly being whittled away. And this year farmers...