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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comparative amounts the University holds in bonds, common stocks, and real estate have shifted somewhat since 1936. Thirty-three percent of the total is now invested in government bonds. The University held no government bonds at all in 1936. Holdings in common stocks have also increased from twenty-nine percent in 1936 to thirty-six percent in 1947. Sign of the times: this trend continued during 1946-47, when the University added $6 million to its common stock investments. Claflin attributes to "larger dividends from common stocks" the fact that in 1947 balances were more favorable than in 1946. Both...
...real estate, the figures "belie the impression held by many that Harvard owns all of Cambridge and most of Boston. Not only have the University's real estate and mortgage holdings decreased in the last ten years to less than two percent of the total at present, but this percentage is considerably lower than comparative figures for most of the major universities in the nation. The average amount invested in real estate by fifty-nine colleges and universities in 1946, including Harvard, was better than thirteen percent...
Holders of annual coupon books will receive approximately a 50 percent discount on tickets for Crimson basketball and hockey games at the Boston Garden and Boston Arena. Tickets maybe bought at eeither the H.A.A. office or the Garden of Arena, but coupons can be exchanged for tickets only at the H.A.A., Lunden said...
...largest vote ever cast on any issue in the history of the Annex, 802 undergraduates -- approximately 83 percent of the student body -- marked affirmative ballots. Thirty-six voters dissented; 126 'Cliffedwellers failed to vote in the two-day balloting...
...Schuman faces exactly the same problems that defeated the Ramadier regime: a grossly inflated economy that has scaled prices fifty percent above normal with only a twenty-five percent wage increase and a suicidal factionalism among France's myriad political parties. To replace the vacuum that characterized Ramadier's ten months in power, Schuman proposes stringent budget supervision, a wholesale stabilization of national currency, and an all-out war against Communist-inspired strikes. His purely economic solutions can be effected through prudent government alone, but when M. Schuman intends to crush the present widespread strikes, he must deal with unions...