Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted that in spite of greatly expand areas of learning it would continue to be possible to respect and learn something of the "unknown provinces" beyond one's individual field. He emphasized this especially in regard to differences between the sciences and the humanities...
...Senate subcommittee voted to expand the planned 41,000-mile route to 48,000 miles to satisfy state requests, add $15.4 billion to the cost, delay completion until 1979. But no action has yet been taken on the measure by Congress...
Various other items of physical expansion that must be completed before numerical expansion can begin are also covered by the Program for Harvard College. A new chemistry research and teaching center, to be connected to Mallinckrodt, has been planned, as has a Behavorial Sciences building to expand the facilities of the Departments of Psychology and Social Relations. Increased library space has not been provided for, however, and certainly with Widener and Lamont as crowded as they are, some addition must be made before 800 or so additional students can be comfortably accommodated...
...marked expansion of one would probably also permit a parallel expansion in the other. But Dean Elder and many others would oppose any increase in graduate enrollment that would break sharply the present proportion of size between the GSAS and Harvard College. If the College is able to expand 15 to 20 per cent, the graduate school could probably grow a similar amount, but no more...
...appears almost certain that the College will expand. The groundwork for growth has been laid by the Program for Harvard College. Harvard's decision to expand is by no means a radical one. In the past Harvard has gradually enlarged in order to meet the demands of the future, and now, when the years ahead hold an unprecedented rise in college applications, the reasons for expansion are especially great...