Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Placement figures have always been high, and if anyone regrets the existence of the Business School it's probably the firms that can't offer high enough salaries to attract the Harvard men into their organizations. Most banks and accounting firms can't afford starting salaries much over $250 per month, while the average company operating through the School's Placement Office these days is offering from $250 up to $350 a month as a starter...
...this security at admissions time leads to a school with few failures throughout the two-year course. This doesn't mean that the life of a Business School student can be an easy one; on the contrary, the School expects the average student to devote 60 hours per week to his work, inclusive of classroom time...
Namm said that after speaking to "several college and university presidents," he found that in two of the leading eastern universities, "at least 80 per cent of the members of the economics faculties favor planning and direction by government as the prime determiner in economic values...
Degradation. Both RCA and CBS are highly skilled at pointing out faults in the other company's system. First, says RCA, the CBS pictures are "degraded." This means that CBS, to increase the number of pictures per second and thereby avoid flicker, has had to reduce the number of scanned lines in each picture from 525 to 405. Thus, the "definition" is reduced and the grain of the picture is made coarser, like a newspaper cut compared to an illustration in a slick-paper magazine...
Pledge cards, with which students may allocate percentages of their donations to seven specific charities, will be used again this year. Although national organizations are not stressed, the donor may write in any charity of his own choosing. While the Student Council is supposed to receive 20 per cent of all allocated money for its own use, the student is allowed to request that none of his donation go to the Council...