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...true that paying bookbinders decent wages means raising tuition. Harvard works on an every-tub-on-its-own-bottom system, under which each department--including the printing office--is self-supporting. But a broader argument--that increasing the wages of campus workers as a group will mean increasing student fees--deserves a more general reply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Support the Printers | 4/26/1974 | See Source »

...fashionable then to hang paintings in a nobleman's elaborate salle de bain. This was a salon, often very elegantly furnished with rugs, tapestries and paintings, to which the nobleman's valet brought a tub of hot water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Malraux: The End of a Civilization | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

President Bok's decision this week to allow Eliot House to accept an alumnus's offer of support for an ambitious arts program seems to have plugged for the moment a small leak in Harvard's "every tub on its own bottom" method of fund-raising...

Author: By Walter N. Rothschild iii, | Title: Take the Money And Run--For Now | 3/9/1974 | See Source »

Lost Yards. Last week Ford took a three-day swing through Kentucky, Illinois and Nebraska that looked remarkably like a campaign tour. He thumped the tub for campaign funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Delicate Balancing Act | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

What if your partner really needs a bath? The wife of a coal-truck driver said that bathing with her husband was carrying patriotism too far. If she did, she said, she would step out of the tub with a black ring around each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Flubbing the Rub-a-Dub-Dub | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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