Word: lipscombe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking to the future, Lipscomb said the committee felt that this move would continue to attract first rate faculty, while not sacrificing the undergraduate tutorial program...
...merger has strong backing from both the Chemistry and Biology departments. William Lipscomb, Jr., professor of Chemistry and chairman of the Chemistry Department, will second the motion...
University reaction to the decision was cautious but optimistic. Professor William N. Lipscomb, chairman of the Department of Chemistry, commented that Harvard's situation is "a bit more complicated" than that of most universities. He said that there are many graduate assistants in the Chemistry Department who receive research support from more than one source and that tax exemption would be complex in their cases...
...think our suggestion would be to have students who are studying for an advanced degree and receiving support from any source to ask for an individual decision from the Internal Revenue Service," Lipscomb said. He emphasized that the Chemistry Department could only encourage its students to apply for tax-exemption and that the department itself could make no decision...
Both Preston and Lipscomb indicated that there are already a large number of research assistants who receive tax exemption. The majority of these, they noted, have tax exempt stipends from either the National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health. Preston said, however, that some students not holding these grants had already avoided paying. "Until now, the IRS policy has not seemed very consistent," he said...