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...hand, you recognize the fact that a solid athletics program is the principal coalescing force among alumni," says Ross Pritchard, president of 8,000-student Arkansas State. "Yet you are forced to recognize that the program operates at a loss and that you've got to pick up that loss from auxiliary moneys. That really puts the pressure on you." Echoes Stanford President Richard Lyman: "Those pressures are not going to diminish. Athletics costs are mounting faster than the cost of living, and most universities feel that they've exhausted such remedies as raising ticket prices dramatically...
Such resistance has forced some presidents to turn to telethons, free prizes at games, and athletic directors with lots of promotional ability. Still, says Pritchard, "you are working hard to eliminate a deficit. But at the same time, you've got these new programs [women's sports] coming in that will likely not be revenue-producing sports. So you are almost shoveling sand against the tide...
...would not hold even a closet door open. As far as the flag and the Empire are concerned, it might be subtitled To Subvert Them All My Days or The Devil Is a Welshman. Delderfield's Angry Young Man, 1929-style, is a young bank clerk named Charlie Pritchard-5 ft. 5 in. of meekness, with horn rimmed glasses. After six years of diligent work in his drab little Welsh seaside town, Charlie still boards in a room formerly occupied by a pickle salesman. He has barely risen to be fifth of six clerks. "That's a safe...
...showpieces are the neglected conversational operas of Richard Strauss, Capriccio and Intermezzo. They were staged for the lustrous Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom under Administrator Moran Caplat's dictum of "hiring people we know and exploiting them at what they want to do." To succeed retiring Musical Director John Pritchard, Glyndebourne is bringing in Conductor Bernard Haitink. His crisp baton imparts a discipline to this year's production of Pelleas et Melisande that discloses unexpected shadings in Debussy's diaphanous music...
Green was initially hired by the Office Student Employment for one week of work on the dorm crew--At the end of that week the supervisors of Buildings and Grounds--in this case Pritchard--decide which students are hired for additional work. At Harvard College and Radcliffe Buildings and Grounds, the decision is made by letters...