Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly the College must expand and improve its facilities, and the expense of such a program will inevitably be paid for, at least partially, by the students. But the "gradual inflation" of the national economy seems noticeably small beside the rise of college costs. When one considers that there were only two tuition raises in the seven years from 1949 to 1956, and that during that same period the board and room rates remained extremely stable, the increases of the last three years have to be thought of as having very little to do directly with the fluctuations...
Accepting the College's decision to expand, the most important question the University must decide is when the costs of expansion will be applied. If it continues to concentrate the costs of education, as it has in the last three years, instead of spacing them, Harvard may well find itself with new buildings, higher faculty salaries, and a student body of stock holders...
Other decisions made at the conference include plans to open the Radcliffe Library from 2 to 10 p.m. on Feb. 22, Oct. 12, and Nov. 11. Previously, Widener has been the only undergraduate library open on these three holidays. Students also voted to expand the smoking area on the second floor of the library from a small section to the entire floor...
...Dudley House, predicted earlier this month that the size of the student body may be increased with the addition of new Houses. He said that students will not be willing to bear the cost of deconversion beyond a certain point, and, at that point, the College should start to expand...
...Mason went to the FHA in 1954 when it was reeling from the windfall profits scandals, promised that "we're going to live in a goldfish bowl from now on." He was as good as his word. Mason cleaned up the FHA, went on to speed up and expand its loan program, started a housing program for old folks, worked hard for urban renewal and better quality houses for home buyers...