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Hillel provides several informal courses on aspects of Jewish culture and traditions. "Hillel, therefore, should help the students understand themselves as Jews." Rabbi Gold said. "We can hope that the Jewish part of the Judeo-Christian tradition will become a larger part of university curricula, but for the time being it is Hillel which assumes responsibility...
...unparalleled tuition rise for one Harvard class. Harvard was also the first class in which the Advanced Standing Program was implemented. Although Advanced Standing did not have a large beginning in the Class of '59, the Program has seemed a successful one, and appears to be playing an increasingly larger part in the composition of the College. '59 was also the first class to receive the General Motors Scholarships. In the first year of the establishment of these scholarships, Harvard received twenty of the seventy national winners...
Under the Harvard pension plan, however, the longer a professor remains an active lecturer the larger is his pension. Under the present system, the University contributes 12 1/2 per cent of the professor's yearly salary to a pension fund that is turned over to the professor upon his retirement. Formerly, the professor himself used to put 5 per cent of his salary into the fund, with the University providing the remaining 7 1/2 per cent. As it stands now, the professor actually receives 12 1/2 per cent of his salary annually, while a member of the Faculty...
...face of spiraling costs, however, it is unlikely that any number of minor savings will solve the problem. Unless new sources of alumni support are found, or the University agrees to assume even larger portions of the budget, sweeping changes in the athletic program will become necessary...
...proposed a complicated four-step plan, starting with unification of Berlin by free elections under four-power supervision and ending, rather irrelevantly, with provisions for armaments reductions and European security. The most interesting feature of the Western plan is the section of German re-unification. West Germany is much larger than its Eastern counterpart, yet Soviet proposals for re-unification have always been based on the idea of "federation," with the "two Germanies" being treated as two equal states effecting a merger. The West, for its part, has insisted on immediate nationwide free elections and has rejected the federation concept...