Word: tub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Each 'Tub' Has Its Place: Harvard may have an endowment of more than $4.5 billion. It may be the largest academic fundraiser in the country this year. But some of the University's nine faculties couldn't care less. The reason? "Every tub on its own bottom"--the Harvard tradition which decrees that all schools must maintain their own financial autonomy. One result: the Graduate School of Education had a total budget less than half the size of what the Faculty of Arts and Sciences made in fundraising alone last year...
POTENTIAL pitfalls lie in two attitudes that demonstrably bore constituents and damage the council's credibility: precocity and parochialism. For example, one campaigner from Leverett House this fall promises a hot tub in every room. Another vows a condom should be placed on every doorstep...
Fundraising, a hot issue this year, has long been practiced at Harvard in the tradition of "every tub on its own bottom," where each faculty is responsible for seeking its own donations...
Harvard's time-honored philosophy has been one of "every tub on its own bottom," an operating principle which stresses decentralization in fundraising efforts. The University's bigger and more prestigious faculties--the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Law School and the Business School--have traditionally benefitted from these individual drives, drawing on extensive alumni networks to yield large donations...
Harvard's time-honored philosophy has been one of "every tub on its own bottom," an operating principle which stresses decentralization in fundraising efforts. The University's bigger and more prestigious faculties--the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Law School and the Business School--have traditionally benefitted from these individual drives, drawing on extensive alumni networks to yield large donations...