Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expansion is part of the overall plan to establish at the University "a center of religious learning." This program was first set forth in 1952 when President Conant, emeritus, announced a campaign to raise $5 million for the School. President Pusey reaffirmed the policy in his convocation address to the School in 1953. Since then, the size of the student body has almost doubled...
...people talking until 10 p.m. Students were also interested in queueing up with other citizens to view the displays of the jewels, furs, sportscars, and other luxuries of Juan and Eva Peron. But even more than demonstrating and looking at remnants of an old regime, the students want to establish a solid democracy, Einaudi feels. As one student said, "We want all of this to be known, and then we will destroy it, for we believe that democracy has come to stay in Argentina...
...students will get heavy doses of history, the classics, the social sciences. They will also be required to do some nonacademic labor (a radical innovation in the Orient, where intellectuals have traditionally regarded manual labor as degrading). Since Tunghai is located in rich farming land, the university may eventually establish a student farm that will supply its own needs, and perhaps sell to the community...
...delinquency in the abstract is like opposing sin; only concrete actions count. Before time runs out on the Federal grant, the new City Councilors should join with City Manager Curry and produce some real progress toward urban renewal. As soon as possible they should appoint a general supervisor and establish a housing authority, so that the embryonic Redevelopment Authority will know where and how to start work. If these steps are taken and the necessary funds appropriated, Cambridge's Urban Renewal Plan can get under way while there is still something left to renew...
When John Harvard left his three hundred-volume library to establish the first college in America, he founded a community of sometime scholars who have probably purchased more books per capita than any other similar group in the western hemisphere...