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When Cordiner finished his explaining, the inevitable sniping began. Mrs. Wilma Soss, an inveterate needier at company meetings and president of the Federation of Women Shareholders in American Busi ness, waggled an arm at Cordiner and demanded that he resign. "You are an embarrassment to the company," she blared. "I am your employer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Confidence in Cordiner | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...that college tuitions will rise sharply in the next few years. There are a great many people who could pay more than the $1000 that Harvard charges and thus reduce the annual excess of expenditure over income per student. The money saved here could be poured into aid for needier students and into faculty salaries. It seems quite likely that Harvard will have to raise its tuition soon. In an article on faculty salaries, Dean Bundy has said, "We face needs so great and urgent that we shall probably have to plan for both new endowment and tuition increases...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Harvard Expansion | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...dormitory to supplement the space available in Eaton House and a new building to the rear called the Old College. On the first floor there was a "Great Hall" and a lean-to kitchen; two chambers filled the second floor, and above them were three gabled garrets. For the needier schoolers, there was also an undesirable "lowest chamber," presumably in the basement...

Author: By Harry K. Schwatz, | Title: Tombstone in the Tar | 10/16/1954 | See Source »

...future "Who's Who" candidates. Financial need became secondary during an abusive competition for future success. Like middle aged ladies at an auction, the schools matched bid against bid for promising prizes. Highly sought high school seniors could almost sit back and take their choice of the bids, while needier classmates, also college material, had all too often to be content with an acceptance but no stipend from a college which had already exhausted its funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scrambled Scholarships | 2/9/1954 | See Source »

...debated against Martin C. Needier '51, Executive Board member of the Harvard Liberal Union, sponsors of the debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ike Club's President Claims General, Taft Agree on Home Policy | 4/18/1952 | See Source »

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