Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Take Dorchester," he pointed out. "May 20 there's going to be a primary there for a vacant seat in the legislature. There's a black candidate who has a good chance of defeating some conservative opponents, and Dorchester is 30 per cent black. But these people have to be told...
They still must make students take their club seriously. Actually, they have more prestige off-campus than on. In recent years politicians in Massachusetts have actively begun to solicit student opinion. Young Dem officers have received calls from the State Legislature to sound off at their open hearings. The legislators, especially the Democrats, associate Harvard student opinion with the YD's much in the same way the Hollywood actors associate Harvard drama with the Hasty Pudding...
...physical barriers of the stage were not so easily overcome. The stage was so small that the actors could take only small unexcited strides. The streetlamp outside the old location sneaked through the blackened windows and ruined effective lighting techniques. And to complicate lighting even further, there was no money for a lighting board--lights could only be turned off and on with no control over their intensity. for seats the theatre had only 22 burlap-covered tables which could hold about ninety people...
THREE of Wolff's proposal will necessarily run into financial problems. Because they require additional funds, they must either take funds away from other parts of the Faculty budget or else fall low on the list of Harvard's financial priorities...
...Robert G. McClosky's recommendation for full five-year fellowships for graduate students. Presently, all first year students are guaranteed some sort of financial aid; older graduate students usually finance their second through fifth years in one of three ways: accepting outside scholarships like the National Science Foundation grants; taking teaching fellow positions; or competing for Harvard scholarships (primarily on the basis of first-term first-year grades). There is no limit on the number of grants a student can take; several accept grants and then become teaching fellows, doubling their earnings...