Word: desideratum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Higher costs of living in the Houses, together with depression-struck family incomes have made the University desideratum of including men of all financial means an end still more difficult to achieve. Scholarships and aids, it is well known, are not yet large enough to enable the poor student to look forward with assurance to a Harvard education. With conditions as they are, more jobs are needed to enable students to remain in college; this need could be met in part by, the introduction of student waiters into the Houses...
...dozen possible sites were examined by the Harvard astronomers during the past six months, but the Oak Ridge station has proved to be superior to any other in Eastern Massachusetts. The land comprises more than thirty acres of woodland, the woods being a desideratum in providing a protection against wind, dust, and stray light from neighboring villages, farmhouses, and highways. It was given to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Fuller of Belmont...