Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looked almost magical as it rose, without any appreciably greater noise or flame, as if it said, I've been here long enough; I think I'll be going somewhere else, if you don't mind.' " Thus read the March 17, 1926 entry from the diary of Dr. Robert H. Goddard, an obscure physics professor and engineer. The day before, Goddard had launched the first liquid-fueled rocket from a field on his Aunt Effie's farm near Auburn, Mass. The 2½ sec. flight carried the rocket to a height of only...
Black applications increased 3 per cent, from 615 to 633 applicants. Spanish-speaking applicants rose 16 per cent to 247 up from 212 and native American applications rose 13 per cent from 14 to 19, Jewett said...
...million to nearly $200 million. Harvard received a total of $600 million in new funds and the market value of the endowment nearly tripled, from $342 million to more than $1 billion. The cost of running the University's single largest budget--the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--rose from $11.8 million in 1953/4 to $70 million by the time Pusey left office. In addition, during the Pusey years the number of living alumni rose from 95,000 to over...
History has to a large degree borne out Bennett's perception of the economy. Inflation has forced the University to trim back many operations and to raise more money from outside sources of income. In energy and fuel expenditures, for example, costs rose by more than $3 million despite a 22 per cent cutback in energy consumption during the past fiscal year. Undergraduates have felt inflation in real terms most heavily in the past three years alone; the cost of attending Harvard/Radcliffe has risen from about $5025 to more than...
Minority applications to the Class of 1980 rose slightly from last year, while the number of women applicants rose to the highest level ever, L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, said yesterday...