Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quincy House construction approaches its completion date of September, 1959, the Masters and the Administration are now occupied with the problem of reevaluating room rents. It has long been a question of considerable complexity, but the addition of an eighth House with nearly identical rooms makes it even more knotty...
Opinions on rent rates for the Eighth House are sharply divided between uniform prices for all rooms and a system of differentiation similar to the one which now exists in the House systyem. If the latter alternative is adopted, the problem immediately arises, how is such a differentiation to be made in a House which has no striking factors to set one room apart from another, except for the rather trivial ones such as view and proximity to the elevators that will eliminate the stair-climbing inconvenience which is a strong factor in present ratesetting...
Announced in early September, the change reflects a desire on the part of the Administration to see an older, more experienced man as Master of Dudley House in an attempt to see it reach the stature of an eighth House...
Chosen to the second team was Harold Anderson, varsity guard. The first two squads were dominated by Dartmouth and Princeton, both with five men. Following in second place were Brown and Cornell, with four players apiece while Pennsylvania and Harvard had two each. However, the seventh and eighth Ivy League teams, Yale and Columbia, had no representatives...
...leading bankers fizzled when the bankers politely declined. For a while it seemed that there might be no new board; but before the deadline, 15 citizens, most of them known segregationists, filed for the six posts. Facing the new board after its election: a ruling last week by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ordering continued desegregation of Little Rock schools...