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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there: $285,000) to pick up the Cheerful chairmanship and rescue his bobbing stock options, re-evaluated his stand in the light of Quarles's death, said: "I will certainly be here in December." In fact, he will probably stay on the job until around February 1960, help present the defense budget to Congress...
Holden said he was "impressed" by the attitudes of the University officials with whom he has discussed the problem. He said he believed the changes are designed not only to enable the cafeteria to operate in the black, but also to serve graduate studens better than at present...
Under the Harvard pension plan, however, the longer a professor remains an active lecturer the larger is his pension. Under the present system, the University contributes 12 1/2 per cent of the professor's yearly salary to a pension fund that is turned over to the professor upon his retirement. Formerly, the professor himself used to put 5 per cent of his salary into the fund, with the University providing the remaining 7 1/2 per cent. As it stands now, the professor actually receives 12 1/2 per cent of his salary annually, while a member of the Faculty...
Morison retains his contacts with the faculty by attending the History Department luncheon on Thursdays, and is often visited by former students. He sees members of the present student body "only when they want to get something" like information for theses...
...fault lies in the assumption of the Fine Arts Department that the way to initiate students to the wonders of the visual arts is to present those marvels in an epic survey. The problem of how to look at a work of art must be studied very carefully if an introductory course's value is to be permanent, if it can serve as a meaningful guide to the student's subsequent visual experiences...