Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since President Lowell introduced the House system to Harvard in the late 1920's, there has been very little change in the basic make-up of the Houses. Now, in 1957, with eighth, ninth and tenth Houses soon to become realities the possibility of some alteration in the system is worth consideration...
...major difficulty in the way of Harvard's eighth House was removed yesterday, when the Cambridge Board of Appeals obligingly waived a city housing regulation requiring a minimum ceiling height of eight feet for all rooms in dwelling houses...
...from speeding up, in fact, Vanguard lagged behind its original plan for a late-1957 launching of a 20-odd-lb. satellite (less than one-eighth as heavy as Russia's claim for Sputnik). The stretched-out schedule calls for launching smaller test satellites late this year, orbiting the first 21½-lb. ball next spring. The satellites themselves are ready to soar, reports Vanguard's softspoken, pipe-puffing Director John P. Hagen. But the launching vehicle is still undergoing tests. Its first stage, an adaptation of the Navy's Viking, has to work perfectly...
...excellent time of 15:35, finishing about twenty-five yards ahead of Jed Fitzgerald of the Crimson. Brandy Harrison, Yardling captain, took third, but Penn runners finished in both the fourth and fifth spots. However, Jacques LaFrance, Bruce Nystrom, and John Evans of the Crimson took sixth, seventh, and eighth respectively; and their performances were the key ones in deciding the outcome of the meet...
...occupation of Wigglesworth by upperclassmen is chiefly responsible for this new problem, Whitlock said. "The new eighth house will solve most of our difficulties," he added, "but there is a possibility that the College will continue to admit more than it can house, even after...