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Many Houses are using the money largely to attract "big name" visitors to their guest suites. But, to import a celebrity is expensive (he receives transportation costs plus a generous "honorarium," seldom refused). As Master Perkins explained, a House can easily spend 15 per cent of its yearly allowance on a single short-term visitor. Furthermore, celebrities are busy men, usually unable to remain in Cambridge more than a few days. Contact with students may be limited to shaking hands, trading pleasantries over sherry glasses, and a speech. It is never enlightening to hear a man--however great--repeat what...
...long as they--or the Masters--would like. "It takes a Harvard bunch four or five days to get to know anyone," observed Master Perkins, and unless a visitor can do more than eat and run, "it seems a little excessive to pay his travel expenses and a generous honorarium just to let students shake his hand." However, as Finley pointed out, a visitor "can either spread himself hopelessly thin, or he can meet more fully with a few people." Eliot House takes the latter approach...
Brass Knuckles Rapped. Doerfer's defense was that the Federal Communications Act explicitly permits FCCommissioners to present "publications or papers for which a reasonable honorarium or compensation may be accepted." As for hotel bills, bar tabs, etc. paid by the broadcasting industry, "these things are accepted today as American amenities...
...famed scientist last week: Physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr, one of the fathers of atomic fission. President Eisenhower went to Washington's National Academy of Sciences to address the meeting as Bohr received the first Atoms for Peace Award, a gold medal and a $75,000 tax-free "honorarium" put up by the Ford Motor...
Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, Thursday night received the 1955 Research Corporation award for contribution to science. His work in synthesizing cortisone and other drugs won for him an honorarium of $2500, a plaque, and a citation...