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Even with an accompanying analytic supplement, the first of its kind, the report is difficult for the layman to plow through, much less understand. But it suggests a number of developments important not only to the University's financial outlook, but also to life at Harvard in general...
...analytic supplement to the Financial Report prepared by his office is cautiously optimistic...
...read his pamphlet, Guinier placed ads in the Crimson urging people who went his comment on the Review Committee report to read his progress report. Guinier rarely goes anywhere without copies of his pamphlet. He leaflets dining halls and on the street. The chairman has also tried to supplement the Information Office's efforts by leaving piles of the document in public areas. About twice a week copies of the progress report are left on the ledge of the Superintendent's office in Eliot House, which all people entering the House must go by when entering...
Still to Come. The word micrography does not yet appear in the O.E.D. But the history of that word will be available in the very near future. For Oxford has just released its newest updated volume (A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, Vol. I, 1,331 pages; $50). Volume I goes only from A through G. Volume II, H through P, and Volume III, Q through Z, are expected within the next five years. When the supplement is completed, it will have more than 50,000 words and 1.5 million quotations selected at times to entertain as well...
...project so far has taken 15 years. Supplement Editor R.W. Burchfield, a native of New Zealand and a teacher at St. Peter's College, Oxford, has had nearly 100 reader-scribes scouring fiction, nonfiction, newspapers and scientific journals from all over the English-speaking world in search of references to their assigned words. Some of the readers worked for nothing, while most freelanced for about $1 an hour. The oldest was a cleric in his 90s who is also listed as a contributor to the first O.E.D. The most prolific was a British book reviewer, Marghanita Laski, who supplied...