Word: self-help
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...increase significantly the proportion of the student body receiving financial assistance from the College because of the extraordinarily rapid and unprecedented increase in the cost of a Harvard education. Scholarship stipends grew steadily smaller in relation to the total cost, and the scholarship holder had to supply by self-help a steadily larger proportion of the total cost. The self-help gap was about $450 in 1950 and $800 in 1960. The average scholarship stipend was $1,082 below the official over-all student budget in 1950, $1,709 below it in 1960. This happened in a decade when...
Bender expressed great worry about the College's scholarship program in his report, pointing out that the "self-help" gap for scholarship students had grown from...
Cleared Throats. Emerson (capacity 50) is totally dedicated to the self-help theory. In 16 months, its eight-man faculty has not had a payday ("The faculty supports the college"). When one highly qualified French teacher complained about dirty classroom windows, she was told: "You know we don't have a window washer here, baby. Wash them yourself." She quit on the spot. Nor does Duskin worry about policing students. Eight of them have set up their pads in a cabin outside town-in what combination he cares not. Says Duskin: "You can't lock girls...
...Mark Caine. In the clever guise of a self-help manual, this British book aims a good Swiftian kick at the cultists of success...
Thin Luck. One converted World War II bomber was busy hauling supplies- cement, rice and nails-for a village self-help program that the U.S. hoped would win some friends. Old C-475 ferried arms, food, cigarettes and beer that floated down by orange and white parachutes wherever a royal army contingent could be spotted through the clouds. Luck ran out for one U.S. embassy C-47 on an observation mission, which ran into a hail of ground fire and crashed. The U.S. gave seven crew members up for dead, the first U.S. casualties of the Laotian war. The only...