Word: indirections
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week Cutler told the American Medical Association convention that the Government, by continuing to withhold the "indirect costs" of its grants, would "kill the goose that lays the golden egg of research...
...Robert Cutler '16, head of the Overseers' Committee to visit the Medical and Dental Schools, pointed out at the American Medical Association convention last week, the problem is that grants often do not include sufficient funds to cover "indirect" expenses. Such costs include salaries of assistants, supplies and equipment, extra maintenance men, utilities, and a number of other hidden expenses. Although these factors might seem insignificant, extra expenses on the $5,000,000 Harvard used in grants in 1954 amounted to $1,500,000. Of that sum, donors paid only $500,000 and left the Medical Center with a million...
Already the Medical School has had to turn down proposed grants because it could not afford the overhead. Some agencies, notably the armed forces and the Atomic Energy Commission, have recognized the problem and have made provisions to pay for all indirect expenses. But the Public Health Service and the National Science Foundation, from which Harvard gets twice as much as from the above sources, has been unable to convince the government that it should appropriate more money for overhead costs...
...indirect answer to a special request from parochial school heads, delegates also decided against the use of tax funds for "support of non-public educational institutions...
...second quarter when John Hamlin kicked a long shot at the Brown goal. The goalie caught it, but then stepped over the goal line. Tuckerman, nearest the goal, was credited with the score. Tuckerman scored the winning marker at 15:20 of the third when he took a long indirect kick from Captain Floyd Malloy and booted the ball into the left corner of the nets...