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...President Richard M. Cyert said there have been estimates that some students will have to pay about $750 a year for terminals beginning after 1985. The development phase of the computer system may cost around $20 million. IBM officials said last month, and installation and upkeep could result in continuing high charges for the university...
...holdings as valued heirlooms since the last share was sold by the library in the late 1850s. (Daniel Webster, the eloquent Senator from Massachusetts, was shareholder 296; his plaster bust stares out over a young librarian using a computer.) Most shareholders contribute at least $50 a year to the upkeep of the institution, as do "life members" of the library, who achieve their status by applying with references and paying $500. Both proprietors and life members are allotted four tickets a year for "guests" who pay the library $35. But thousands of writers and scholars use the Athenaeum every year...
Once they become part-time owners, people sometimes find that their dreams turn into nightmares. During a year, dozens of families can wind up occupying a unit, with some stealing the linen or perhaps wrecking the living-room sofa and thereby adding to upkeep costs. Says Barney Logan, a condo dweller in Honolulu, whose 47-unit building now includes about a dozen time-share apartments: "When we first came here, nothing was said about time sharing. Then the flood started. There was overuse of utilities, maintenance costs went up, and sometimes you couldn't even get an elevator, there...
...museum got off to an impressive start during Eliot's last year in office. But Abbott Lawrence Lowell assumed the presidency after Eliot's retirement in 1909, and the department and museum soon began to decline. Established professors died or retired, and no replacements were hired. Funds for museum upkeep and expansion mysteriously dried up. From the '20s through the early '50s, the few remaining Semitic scholars at Harvard sturggled for academic survival while colleagues at Chicago, Pennsylvania and Yale Universities were making impressive headway, sponsoring archeological expeditions, scholarly publication and museum expansion. Recall that Indiana Jones, the hero from...
...Appeals Court held yesterday in an unsigned opinion that Harvard is not liable for damages because of a 1882 lease with the city of Boston that made Harvard responsible for the upkeep of botannical gardens in the arboretum, but left accountability for security and public access issues with the city...