Word: mellons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...manner of the Miss America contest, the runners-up were then announced-Carnegie-Mellon and Northwestern. And the winner? Cornell. Much cheering and drinking of toasts. Gary Orosy's idea had been a winner -almost. He did not get a job offer...
...other business schools had higher reputations than theirs. Thus the great idea: Why not invite the others to Ithaca to compete? According to a survey in M.B.A. magazine, business school deans ranked the top nine in employment value as Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Wharton School of Finance, Michigan, M.I.T., Carnegie-Mellon, Northwestern and Dartmouth (Cornell tied for 14th). Harvard loftily declined to compete, and Stanford said Ithaca was too far away, but the others all agreed to send four-member teams...
...contest used the "case method" pioneered at Harvard-that is, the examination and solution of specific problems like that of Publisher Ginn-several of the schools favor other systems. Chicago is known as a "theory" school where students learn general concepts, then apply them to specific cases. Carnegie-Mellon and M.I.T. are strong in statistics and math; their students could "crunch the numbers." Wharton is reputed to produce hard-nosed decision makers-bottom-line types. Cornell, which uses a combination of the case-study and theory methods, was clearly the underdog. Said Team Member Dick Tushingham: "If we are simply...
...cutting taxes and other pump-priming measures next year. "He faces a terrible temptation to heat things up," says Thomas Ayers, the chairman of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison. "I hope he chooses a moderate course." Declares Norman Robertson, senior vice president and chief economist of Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "If he should try to adopt the Humphrey-Hawkins bill [which calls for heavy spending on public-service employment] or something like it, trying to reach a predetermined level of unemployment too quickly, this could seriously worsen inflation. One wonders what restraint can there be on a liberal Congress...
When Bernard Berenson died in Italy in 1960 he willed Harvard the Villa I. Tatti, just outside of Florence, Italy, which has one of the best collections of Italian art. Harvard is currently a trustee of I. Tatti, and despite a $2.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation ($1.5 million of which is a challenge grant which Harvard must match) the Italian inflation rate has galloped ahead at such a rate that the University needs a total of $4 million if it is ever to sufficiently endow the villa as a study center...