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...literary Establishment in a decade. Leavis' target: Author-Bureaucrat Sir Charles Percy Snow, 56, whose, eight-volume novel cycle, Strangers and Brothers, has won him transatlantic renown as a perceptive interpreter of the new scientific culture of the 20th century. Dismissing their author as "portentously ignorant," irascible Humanist Leavis suggested that Snow's books "are composed for him by an electronic brain called Charlie, into which the instructions are fed in the form of the chapter headings." Replied the normally urbane Sir Charles: "I would only want to respond on the plane of reason, and this does...
Your heart is in the right place, but your decimal point is not, when you say "Of the government's money, the average social scientist gets $20,000, to the scientist's $40,000 and the humanist's $10,000 (CRIMSON Editorial, January 17, 1962). These rough average figures are obtained by dividing the number of faculty members in each of the three areas into the corresponding total Departmental expenses for 1960-61. (Data from p. 36, Harvard and the Federal Government, 1961.) If you count only "the government's money," the average humanist has only under...
...Observatory ($1,200,000), Museum of Comparative Zoology and Peabody ($870,000), the various social science centers and, in fact, all other institutions that do not show up on Departmental budgets. If these expenses are taken into consideration, the share of Federal funds available to the humanistic scholar gets even smaller. Moreover, the total departmental funds available to the average scientists and social scientist, though still and always inadequate, have approximately doubled in the last seven years, whereas they have risen only about 50% for the average humanist. The point of this is not to start a futile debate...
...have to worry about all this federal aid," he remarked half seriously. "We don't get any money from the government." Technically, he is wrong of course: of the government's money, the average social scientist gets $20,000, to the scientist's $40,000 and the humanist...
...Humanist group at Harvard was organized early this term...