Word: pers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never be possible to institute individual conferences instead of sections (Harold Martin, Director of Gen Ed A, stresses that the number of personnel that can be recruited is limited) there is need for more individual consultation than now exists. Perhaps experiments in decreasing the number of sections per term in order increase time for student-instructor conferences would help strengthen teaching...
...committee, under the chairmanship of Al Jacobs '61, polled the College last Spring and found that the overwhelming majority of students seldom take advantage of weekday afternoon hours. Over 70 per cent of those polled indicated that they would be willing to give up the privilege of having women in the Houses on a given afternoon in return for an extension of Friday night hours...
Harvard has the highest pay scale in the entire Ivy League, perhaps even in the nation. For example, unskilled laborers receive $1.35 per hour plus certain free meals here; at Columbia, the comparable hourly rate in $1.05. In addition, the Harvard pay scale is based upon a 40-hour week, while Yale, which pays the second-highest wages among these schools, goes on the basis of a 48-hour week...
...recent campaigns at other colleges the 1000 biggest gifts have usually accounted for about 94 per cent of the money raised. In the Program drive the top 1000 gifts have furnished only 57 per cent of the total...
...Contemporary composers should come to the University to play and speak with undergraduates "or else the entire musical community cannot flourish," Senturia recommends. Music at Harvard for him thus does not stop with the HRO; it is a living, all-important concern which extends far beyond his three rehearsals per week and his teaching in Music 253, formerly taught by Walter Piston. But beyond all this, Senturia exhibits qualities of understanding and charm--additional attributes for the successful new conductor...