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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three things can be done: costs can be reduced, the endowment can be increased to provide more income, and student income can be increased. The first two have been attempted on almost every level. Such things as museum staff's and departmental budgets have been cut to the marrow, sometimes with unfortunate effects, as in the ease of the slash in tutorial. But the total costs continue to rise--employee wages and faculty salaries have gone up, as have heat, electricity, books, and so on up and down and throughout the list of necessary expenditures...
...begin with, the administration must exert every effort to keep the rise as small as possible. It must then set up competent machinery to deal fairly and generously with hardship cases caused by this rise. It must maintain the standards of its Student Employment Office at the very highest level. And finally, it must administer its scholarship funds, some of which have grown substantially during the war and the postwar reign of the GI, so that the College will continue to educate large numbers of students from every income group and from every part of the nation...
Sponsored by the Graduate Advisory Council, tonight's program is billed as "an experiment in interdepartmental communication--a kind of general education at the graduate level...
Labor's candidate also gave cause for more than usual concern: witty, urbane Harold Nicolson, author (Curson: The Last Phase, The Congress of Vienna) and ex-diplomat, was a good friend of Winston Churchill, and a recent Labor convert. He campaigned on a well-bred, sporting level, emphasizing his air of mild reasonableness by saying: "I doubt whether Solomon Eagles* himself could arouse this placid community to a sense of urgency and passion...
...election results were a surprise even to Tory leaders: Tory Harris won a smashing victory that set them crowing about a government setback. Labor took what comfort it could from Nicolson's vote, up 1,700 from the 1945 level...