Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rates, for students in the lower and hard-pressed middle financial brackets, should definitely be retained. The medium and high-rental suites will enable the Houses to meet their financial requirements by letting those who can afford it shoulder most of the burden. This "soak-the-rich" policy has long been Harvard's unofficial attitude toward the problem, and it seems foolish, just because of uniform, modern Quincy House, to let thirty years of hypocrisy go down the drain...
While we cannot afford to be smug about the present situation, we do not need to be apologetic either. We are continuing to attempt improvements within the limits of our resources and energy. If this be stagnation, Heaven save us from activity. Henry Hatfield, Chairman, Germanic Languages and Literatures...
...with pennies"), his florid, stocky figure heads out for the boozer before n a.m. He "gargles" whisky and porter the rest of the day, while heaving beguiling blarney to friends and freeloaders: "Do you know I'm a shareholder in the Daily Worker? But I can't afford to write for it-I write for Vogue instead." At times he is melancholy about the passing of the years: "I am 35 and I do want...
Higher tuition charges than at present, however, are necessary in both public and private colleges for those who can afford them, Dickey wrote in a letter to the New York Times. On this point he is in agreement with Seymour E. Harris, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, who advocates gradually increased tuition charges in line with costs...
This College is behind and it cannot afford to be. It has a language requirement and its stated academic policy is that no student shall be allowed to graduate from here until he has passed this requirement. Some 450 freshmen entered the Class of '60 without having passed their language test and it then became Harvard's job to teach them or let them fall by the wayside. It may be foolish, as many feel, to impose a language requirement on college students who may be particularly inept at such study and who will be saddled with these elementary courses...