Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well as most other American universities, is over-producing scholars. According to Provost Buck, the time is not far off when higher education will have all the teachers it needs, and when unemployment will face Ph.D.'s. Some categories of degree-holders physicists, for instance won't feel the pinch, but others the social scientists will...
...Every place that is favorable for the growth of micro-organisms (and most places are) is a churning battleground of small, fierce creatures. A pinch of moist soil weighing one gram, for instance, may contain more bacteria (up to 2 billion) than there are people on earth. Among the ordinary creatures prowl savage protozoa engulfing them one by one. There is an underworld, too, made up of submicroscopic viruses, hardly more than big molecules, which often invade the larger organisms and multiply explosively...
Like every other college and university, Harvard and Radcliffe are having their troubles in the economic downdrift. Neither is feeling as bard a pinch as many a U.S. school, but each is facing the same worries. Gifts, invested endowment, and, in some cases, tuition incomes are sliding downward, but wages, salaries, and equipment costs are still clinging to inflation-high levels. In other words, the "cost of education" is too high for an increasingly large segment of America's educational institutions...
According to Harris, a financial pinch has been brought to colleges and universities by the decrease in investment interest and the decline in the purchasing power of the dollar...
...statement supporting his article, "The Threefold Crisis in Our Universities," in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Harris claimed that the financial pinch today has forced college professors, even at Harvard to do extra work to support themselves. "On fashionable Brattle St. professors have taken in borders...