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...these demographic changes in the student body, was not a phenomenon common to the University’s peer institutions.The Crimson reported in October of 1958 that both Princeton and Yale Universities faced deficits of over a million dollars for the 1954-55 academic year.The deficits occurred in spite of $150 tuition hikes at both schools in 1952 and a successful fundraising drive at Princeton during the 1953-54 academic year, according to the Crimson article.The red ink was particularly problematic for Yale’s goals of raising faculty salaries and increasing scholarship funding.As the Class...
...less than inspiring presence on TV. And by the time the first term ended, White House officials were leaking widely that he too would soon be going - so widely that Bush decided to do one of his famous LBJ-inspired personnel U-turns and keep Snow just to spite the critics...
...Public hospitals across the country have shut their doors to all but emergency services; private hospitals in some Delhi suburbs are following suit; trade unions have called for a morning of civil disobedience; and students at India's elite business schools are meeting to plan their own protests. In spite of the disruption, the government has sworn that it will not back down, regardless of who resigns or how many protest. Increased quotas, it claims, are the only way to foster social equality at the institutions that are driving the Indian economy forward...
...deans of Harvard in reports written to Lowell and other administrators. They described the first reading period as a success. “I cannot say too much praise of the way in which students worked and the almost entire absence of fault-finding and underhand practices, in spite of the crowded condition of the room,” wrote William C. Lane, College Librarian, in a Feb. 4, 1928 letter to Lowell. His missive also included statistics on the number of employees hired for overtime and explained the cost of a fan used to make the reading room more...
...spite of how relatively obscure their rebel cause is on the world stage, the attacks by Sri Lanka's Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (L.T.T.E) always seem to draw lots of attention. Such was the case Thursday when a squadron of speedboat suicide bombers rammed into a Sri Lankan navy troop carrier convoy off the country's northern coast, killing 17 sailors. The Sri Lankan government claimed to kill more than 50 Tamil Tigers in return, but the deadly operation had already reminded the world that the Tigers are the fathers of modern-day suicide bombing - not only masters...