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With a faculty committee poring over an exhaustive report on the curriculum, the Law School this fall has begun to play the part of a major university problem. Beset on the outside by rapidly shifting concepts of legal thinking and tied from within by the system of teaching to which it has adhered for a generation, the school which was once the brightest star in the Harvard firmament has suffered a threat to its supremacy. That the faculty has waked up to the dangers is an encouraging sign, but in planning any changes in legal education the committee should keep...
That Harvard's $123,000 increase in income from Departments of Instruction, Research, and Administration during last year has been applied entirely to raising teaching salaries, and that building expenses have been cut over the previous year in order to raise wages $75,000 is revealed by the report tendered to the Board of Overseers yesterday by Henry L. Shattuck '01, Treasurer of the College...
Such would seem to be the important changes in the report for the last academic year, made public in its first, and most condensed form last night. Later in the year the full report will be published, a volume containing 385 pages for 1934-35. The present figures are so condensed (all figures now available on page 3) that details as to where economies have been affected are hidden. The only major changes in important items of revenue and expenditure are the increase in total income and the corresponding increase in salaries and wages. Other items in the expenditures which...
Another group of U. S. businessmen has been applying lighter-than-air pressure in Washington, to get the U. S. to re-establish itself in the rigid airship field. They could derive some encouragement last week from the annual report of Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. Admiral Cook made, without change, the recommendations made last spring by his predecessor, Rear Admiral Ernest J. King: for the U. S. to begin immediately the construction of a metal-hulled airship of 1,500,000 cu. ft. capacity, a larger airship...
...report which charged that almost one out of every seven athletes in the 130 colleges studied was subsidized, Harvard did not escape from criticism. Subsequent to the publication of the report, William J. Bingham '16, Drector or Athletics, declared that the conditions complained of had been corrected