Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three billion dollars," predicts Professor Seymour Harris, "will have to come from increased tuition rates in the next decade, if universities are to survive." How Harvard and the rest can meet this demand, with inflation shrinking endowment assets at the same time that alumni contributions diminish, is a problem Harris has attempted to solve in his plan for a long term student loan program...
Wherever or however the challenge is met, it seems apparent from the statements by the President and the Secretary that they are not ready to meet it properly. The initiative for action therefore falls to the Congress, that Congress of "spenders" and "radicals." Seldom has a legislature been called on to formulate a policy of such scope, but seldom has the need for such a policy been so compelling...
...President cannot realize that inadequate expenditures for development programs are even more wasteful than no expenditure at all, the Congress must. The United States cannot afford to gamble that Russia and China will suddenly collapse or that Khrushchev's ambitious plans will turn into colossal failures. To meet the appeal of Communism's economic successes, we must demonstrate the vitality of a democratic system. Unless the Congress will undertake to plan this demonstration, the free world stands to lose the 900 million people of the uncommitted nations. The West cannot afford such a loss...
...opportunities Mrs. Pusey has to meet students is at breakfast after the early service at Christ Church, but even then the President always has to rush off" to learn the Old Testament lesson for the service at Memorial Church. "This fall," she continues, "a student asked us down to his House for dinner. He had quite a meal planned and wanted to cook it over the fireplace. It sounded tempting, but we just didn't have the time...
...Kirkland House cross-country team proved that it did not need an Act of God to win the House meet. In a re-run of November fifth's fiasco, in which a deceptively closed Soldier's Field Gate handicapped one-quarter of the runners, Kirkland again finished first...