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...main trouble is the high cost of a Harvard education. Like almost every other item on the market today, this popular commodity now costs one half again as much as it did ten years ago. Tuition was then $400. Now it is $600. In an equal ratio with tuition have risen all the travel and living expenses associated with a College career. It now costs a man $1,600 or $1,700 a year to come to Harvard from Chicago according to the Assistant to the Provost, while ten years ago the Chicago student could...
TIME'S Feb. 6 item, "High Tension," fails to mention that Ferranti Ltd. had offered Seattle transformers completely to that city's specifications at original price, eight days before their bid was rejected, also that the city purchasing agent had full legal authority either to accept this offer or to reject all bids and readvertise. The city purchasing agent had Ferranti's written assurance that they would submit a new bid completely in accordance with all the fine print in the specifications, at a price which could have saved Seattle taxpayers almost...
Bartok: Allegro Barbara, Rumanian Dance, Suite Op. 14, etc. (Bela Bartok, pianist; Bartok Recording Studio; 2 sides LP). A collector's item-and a must for pianists who want to hear how Bartok played his own music. Originally recorded in Europe more than 15 years ago, the numbers have been well re-recorded by Bartok's son Peter...
With the scale of its season reduced to a sane level, Harvard would be able to compete on a par with Ivy League opponents except for one item: there is no system of job guarantees at Harvard. Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth all offer this much to prospective athletes. Harvard, apparently, wants nothing to do with official job guarantees to its football players. Such a plan involving no more than 50 men would probably hit stonewall resistance--but help for athletes in the form of honest jobs need not depend on favoritism of any sort...
...want to know why Burke, Brynteson, John T. Carnahan, Hall, and Houghteling, all candidates, helped make the recounts, when such an item seems to fall under the duties of only the original ballot counters or another impartial group...