Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be unfair to maintain categorically that the University completely neglects the research requirements of its teaching personnel. Faculty budgets--through maintaining the libraries and laboratories that make significant individual work possible--indirectly support all research projects. But a special Faculty Research Fund administered by Dean Bundy--even if it produces no more than a few thousand dollars each year--would greatly ease the scramble for available money and would enable Harvard to utilize its resources more thoroughly...
This action was extremely unfortunate, and narrow-sighted, for even if Harvard cannot afford to maintain a strong geography department, comprehensive courses should be offered in the field. As a graduate committee organized in 1948 pointed out, geographic training and advice is needed in nine other fields, including history, economics, and anthropology. The committee thought geography "the first essential basis of any area study," and many at Harvard are engaged in regional studies...
...less exalted ways. Once when some of the school's electric clocks broke down, the local repairman turned down Brown's call for help. "We'd be glad to come out.'' he explained. "But those kids out there can fix them." The students now maintain all the school's equipment, have in stalled an intercom system and a special burglar alarm in the boys' washroom to keep young vandals from breaking the ceiling tiles. But more important than any of their projects is the enthusiasm the program has aroused. The students have requested...
...SCIENCE). The report: since 1954, when the U.S. stepped up its ICBM program, it has come such a "long way in the development of space technology" that the conquest of outer space appears right around the corner-and that corner must soon be turned if the U.S. is to maintain its air supremacy...
...packaging firm-Robert Saudek Associates, Inc.-to keep Omnibus on the TV air. Best "guarantee" now, says Saudek, is "the funded know-how of my creative staff," which will include such Omnibus regulars as Cultural Headwaiter Alistair Cooke, Drama Critic Walter Kerr. But the question remains: Can Omnibus maintain the courage of past conceits, the venturesomeness of past successes, the educational luxury of such occasional failures as its go-minute The Iliad, without special subsidy? The signs are encouraging: both current sponsors (Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., Aluminium Ltd.) have committed themselves to sponsor part of Omnibus...