Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...endowment includes long-term donations for scholarships, professorships, and building--both in the graduate schools and the College. More than anything else it tells the story of Harvard's financial condition from year to year. If the usual five percent return ever dropped to four per cent, tuition might have to be doubled to meet costs. And conversely an improvement of as little as 1/10 of a per cent brings an extra million dollars into the University's coffers...
...management spokesmen responded that any increases more than five per cent would cause trouble with other railroad unions that have already settled for five per cent increases...
...suggests that the University raise each teaching fellow's pay to $1600 per fifth, $400 more than the present top rate...
...fifth is a measure of teaching work load, defined by dividing a fellow's total work and study time into five equal parts. Under this system, most TF's teach two or three fifths, receiving at most $2400 or $3600 per year...
...petition's requests, if granted, would raise a teaching fellow's pay $800 per year, if he taught two fifths. Most teaching fellows also receive scholarships to cover the cost of their tuition...