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...addition to these tax payments on University-owned property not used for educational purposes, Harvard, Radcliffe and M.I.T. also pay money "in lieu of taxes" on much other property. Under this voluntary contract with the city, Harvard has paid the city more than $384,000 since 1928. All in all, the University expects to pay the city about $220,000 next year...
...question of whether or not graduate students should live in the Houses instead of undergraduates is not, however, the issue. The proposal which the Masters have made is a temporary way of supplying people to live in the Houses in lieu of non-existent undergraduates. Their suggestion is economically sound--it costs nothing and pays its own way. It worked to the benefit of the Houses in the 1930's; there is no reason why it should not do so again...
According to Sewall, the scholars have "practically complete control of their own educations," their only supervision coming from a faculty adviser. Each member of the group, which averages about twelve a year, is selected from approximately 40 applicants each of whom have at least an 85 average, or in lieu of such an average must be extraordinarily proficient in the field of his special interests. "Most important," the catalogue says, "he must have demonstrated to the satisfaction of his instructors his capacity for independent work...
...Huff is a small British auto that English ladies take with them to parties in lieu of mad money...
...lieu of a gift from Prince Saluddin, the Islamic Society welcomes help from other sources, Ibish stated. "Donations from the governments of Muslim countries, or from the United States government would be accepted," he said. "Also, we would welcome contributions from individual private institutions for specific charitable purposes...