Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, there are more tangible indications of the lowly status of the University's speech training. The speech department has only one position of tenure; the department itself is relegated to inadequate facilities on the third floor of the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Even if the interested student surmounts all these obstacles his tutor often advises him not to take a speech course...
Although the University ended the year with a balance of $482,000, several departments suffered deficits. Among these were the Graduate School of Education, the Fogg Art Museum, and the Dining Halls Department. Steps were taken to avoid a further deficit in the dining halls when the University increased board charges this fall...
Contest judges will be Theodore L. Feininger, Fogg Museum Fellow in Painting and Drawing; Steven Trefonides, professional artist; and George Dixon, head of the Boston Herald-Traveler photo staff...
...Oxford Street, beyond Mallinckrodt and the University Museum, construction is proceeding on a unique project that will probably prove one of the most valuable experimental devices yet conceived for physical research...
Part of the appeal of antiques is purely financial: they represent a hedge against inflation, have increased in value as the dollar has declined. U.S. museums spend from $10 million to $20 million a year on new purchases, thus leave the market thinner. Even tax rulings contribute. An antique buyer may sign over his purchase to an institution that will receive it upon his death, take a deduction each year while he keeps it in his home and continues to enjoy it. Or the antique owner can make a "partial donation," leave his possessions in a museum for the summer...