Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the Bursar's Office was opened Tuesday morning, it was found that it had been entered by thieves during the night and the small safe in which the petty, cash was kept had been blown open. Owing to the fact that practically all of the money taken in during the day in tuition fees was, according to the custom, deposited in the bank before night, the thieves got only $378.67 in cash, plus $300 worth of Liberty Bonds...
...University could conceivably bring a civil action to get back the money it lost, by attaching the King's salary from Collier's. More than 30 years' interest added to the $678.67 might make it worth a try. Maybe endow a small chair in Criminology...
...lagged a bit because the staff's energies were diverted to the problems of teaching swarms of Social Relations majors. Next year, however, an expanded research program is planned, and the Clinic is expanding to meet it. The house next door will be annexed, and adjoining it, a small theater will be built for use in a radical new kind of group therapy, the psychodrama, where patients act out their problems in spontaneous playlets...
This it did not get at Harvard. The Purchase Card Committee gave the plan utterly inadequate publicity, acting on the naive assumption that its job was completed with getting the System organized. Partly as a result of the poor publicity only about 550 students bought cards, a pitifully small number in a University of 12,000. Some of the contracted stores are already complaining that their discount has not brought in enough trade to pay for itself...
This has been a good year for the Music Clubs, and they have furthered the cause of contemporary music. But the sometimes pathetically small audiences, the vanishing of the Music Club Chorus which flourished last year, and the relative inactivity of the Chamber Orchestra are warnings for the future. There is no longer such an active group of veteran musicians around Harvard, and if the clubs are to maintain the high standards which have been set up to now, they will need a more efficient and more perservering management to encourage other groups to cooperate with them in getting good...