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...Everyone here on the Faculty in computer science could triple his salary by taking a job in the computer industry." William H. Bossert, McKay Professor of Applied Sciences said, adding that Harvard has had difficulties recently in hiring professors on the junior faculty level because the salaries offered do not compare with those available in industry...
Although he said he could not recall any tenured faculty members in applied sciences who had left the University to go into industry. Thomas E. Cheatham, McKay Professor of Computer Science, said that there is wide-spread concern at major universities that the most promising computer scholars are avoiding graduate school. There is further worry that those who do obtain advanced degrees are almost all going into industry rather than academia, he added...
...McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis said Harvard is "in a bad competitive position as far as other schools because it does not have a preferential pay scale benefiting junior professors in special areas...
...demands of men's track Coach Bill McCurdy combined with the expertise and experimentation of Thomas A. McMahon, McKay Professor of Applied Mechanics, produced a track that McCurdy claims is the "fastest track in the World" In a feature article, Sports Illustrated praised the new facility, calling it the best of its kind in America. McCurdy had wanted a facility exclusively for track, he said, but limited funds made it "nonsensical to have a track and nothing else, so the old multiple use concept reared its ugly head," he said, and tennis courts were integrated into the facility...
Physics 112 professor R. Victor Jones, McKay Professor of Applied Physics, said he believed that the cold would not hurt the students' performances on his exam, but might possibly have the opposite effect because "discomfort sometimes helps you get through the thing faster...