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...statistics of the Pusey era show what is probably the most impressive growth of any college in the period. Harvard's annual budget increased from $39 million to $188 million, the number of endowed chairs more than doubled, to 277, and the Federal share of the budget grew from one-tenth to one-third. Pusey rebuilt the Divinity School, recruiting men like Paul Tillich and Krister Stendahl, and provided new housing for the Education and Design Schools. Under his leadership, Harvard went into the air for the first time, with high-rise buildings like Leverett, Mather, and Williams James. Monuments...
...hearing, Soloway defended his conduct at the "Counter Teach-In" on political grounds. "Shouting down those war criminals isn't one-tenth of one per cent of what they should get," he told the CRR hearing panel...
Those who are received into the Church as "Acolytes" can become "Initiates" after a period of a few weeks. A tithe, the donation of one-tenth of the member's income to the Church, is a requirement for becoming an Initiate...
...still rushing outward from the original big bang. The speed of that expansion, astronomers have determined, is decreasing-slowed by the gravitational pull of the galaxies upon each other. What cannot be explained, however, is that the calculated mass of the universe's galaxies is only about one-tenth the amount required to produce that rate of deceleration. Where is the missing mass...
...best ARVN troops also took considerable losses, probably far more than Saigon officially reported. South Vietnamese military sources admit that enlistments for such elite outfits as the paratroopers and the marines, which were hit hard in Laos, are running at one-tenth the preinvasion figures. Even more dispiriting was the rationale offered by a U.S. briefing officer in Saigon-that the incursion into Laos had "bought time" for Cambodia's neophyte army. Last year's invasion of Cambodia was also billed as buying time-for the army of South Viet...