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...this raises the question, Who Pays? For even with Harvard's enormous assets (endowment more than $1 billion, larger than any other private university in the nation), no one expects that the University will be able to meet its new expenses alone. President Pusey's report was clearly a plea for sustained alumni support, but annual giving itself will not cover the new costs. Many University officials believe that more and more of the annual budget will eventually come, in some form or other, from the federal government. Already, a third of the total comes from the government...
...that, same day, February 21, the Columbia student council will poll undergraduates on the question. "Should the University compile and release class rank to draft boards?" The Council first planned the referendum early last semester, before the faculty had taken any action. What would have been a plea for action (assuming the tally will be against class rank) is now reduced to an opportunity to support the College faculty...
...this reason Frost had to reject Swanger's final plea for what amounted to a $15,000 increase over last year's federal grant of $72,817 although he praised the basic goals that Swanger drafted in his budget proposal...
While the Administration could afford these questions when they were raised by other young people--students who were less judicious, perhaps, in their choice of adjectives--it cannot brush off this group of leaders. They represent graphically the plea of a generation that is disillusioned with this war and opposed to further escalation. Their statements are couched in the balanced rhetoric and wording bureaucrats will understand. They ooze the qualities which policy-makers and politicians admire: reasonableness, moderation, responsibility, earnestness--and all the rest...
...many 18-year-old Cohens have to be killed before the government activates our legitimate right to national self-defense?" cried Knesset Opposition Leader Menahem Beigin about a youth killed by a Syrian mine. Both Israel and Syria last week accepted U.N. Secretary-General U Thant's plea for talks on farming rights within the demilitarized zone, but the Israelis are skeptical. They believe that Syria is intent only on challenging Israel's territorial rights...