Word: tubbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right when I was sixteen. When I was sixteen I felt things would be all right where I was twenty-one. Now I am sure things will be all right. You do not grow up as early as I thought. Everything continues as it was. I soaked in the tub at home and put my ears under and thought about things for years, when I was twelve, when I was sixteen. It is the same...
...along the tops of doors to see if they had been dusted. Entering one room, he pointed to the bed, asked "Do you mind?" and flopped onto it, carefully keeping his feet raised to avoid getting black shoe polish on the spread. In a bathroom, he climbed into the tub, fully clothed, to test its leg room, then turned on the shower?soaking his jacket in the process...
...against such a policy is an argument not yet touched on which is expounded by the University at great length in the booklet on its resources. In itself, the argument comprises the keystone motto of Harvard's institutional ideology: "Every tub on its own bottom." What this means financially is that each department of the University must be self-supporting. Harvard put it this...
...Every tub on its own bottom. The university . . . will given all the help it can. Yet the choice that faces all Deans or Department Heads is clear: in respect to any new programs, either find new resources, or go without. In respect to the increasing trend of operating expenses, either find new rseources or curtail program...
...example, nearly one-third of the $38-million given to the University was totally without qualification. And the best estimate from University figures indicates that over one-fifth of the total endowment or about $200 million is unrestricted funds. So the University has a pretty big tub in its own right, which could, it would appear, be used to fund faculties in financial trouble (without charging interest...