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...life of students will show, among other things, a typical House suite. And it will emphasize the individual's need for a room of his own by showing how crowded suites can become with the use of double-decker beds...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: How One Goes About Raising $82.5 Million | 6/12/1957 | See Source »

...College should aim for an average House enrollment of 325, as contrasted to the 418 average last year. This, along with overcrowding in freshman dormitories, has put residence at 149 percent of pre-war capacity. He added that 44 percent of the undergraduates still have to use the double-decker beds introduced to meet postwar conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leighton Recommends Two Additional Houses | 1/23/1957 | See Source »

Through it all, however, University life continued almost as if there were nothing abnormal happening. Uniforms became common-place and so did Radcliffe girls in Harvard lecture halls. Undergraduates who had never experienced the pre-war Harvard found nothing unusual about metal trays or double decker beds. While about 500 of the teaching staff took leaves of absence, 1600 stayed. These were assisted by professors who came out of retirement...

Author: By Lewis M. Steel, | Title: College Life During World War II Based on Country's Military Needs | 12/7/1956 | See Source »

...General Court, and for a time was the State's youngest senator. Although he is a descendent of both John Greenleaf Whittier and Charles Sumner, he is not considered a "blueblood" by the Republican party regulars. But Whittier nonetheless puts to good use his residence in a three-decker apartment house in Everett, a declining lower-middle class suburb abutting Somerville. Before an urban audience, the campaigner calls himself a "three-decker Republican...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: The Loaves and the Fishes | 10/23/1956 | See Source »

...JAMES A. DECKER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

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