Word: expand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...relations director, Richard Eldridge, to bring the college's name before more people than have been reached in the past and to interview prospective candidates for admission. President Zens hopes to up the enrollment to 150 students during the next ten years and once having attained this plateau to expand still further, to 250 students...
Prominent among the limited inflationists is Harvard's Professor Sumner H. Slichter. The U.S. has had a rising price and wage level almost from its infancy, he argues, simply because an expanding economy steadily bid up the prices of labor and materials. Both sides agree that in a perfectly run economic world it might be possible to avoid inflation if wage rates, labor productivity and profits all rose together in direct proportion to output. But even the classic economists foresee no such perfect world. Thus, if the U.S. is to continue to expand, the prices of labor and materials...
...those students who have whiled away incredibly dull hours dishing out University food, stacking books, or cleaning rooms, the establishment of Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. should come as a major blessing. The Agency promises to expand not only the quantity of student employment at the University, but to give an incentive to original, and perhaps more interesting forms of lucrative endeavor...
...providing an office, auditing and legal services, a legal address outside College rooms, and risk capital, the new institution will enable students with selling and promotion ideas to expand them greatly. A student with a good idea will be able to borrow up to $5,000 to start a new business if he can convince the Agency's directors that it would be profitable and proper to set him up selling typewriters or toe-nail clippers. Within the rather vague limits of propriety, the opportunities for future hucksters seem boundless...
...first year class at the Harvard Medical School has been launched upon a completely revised pre-clinical curriculum. The revised program will stress interdepartmental teaching, expand the tutorial system and increase the amount of unscheduled time available to students...