Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collection has grown steadily, the amount of display room has stayed the same and the Fogg is starting to feel the pinch. It plans to expand within the next five years, proably by building an addition to house the offices and workrooms now on the third and fourth floors. That would free these floors for gallery space, and they would be opened to the public...
College has long been used by Negroes to escape the ghetto, but Ford feels that the real need is for them to return, join the struggle to expand the economic and political control of blacks within their own community. He worries about his own ability to make the transition from the campus back to the ghetto, where he intends to teach while working for his master's degree in sociology. Looking back, he wonders whether Northwestern treated Negroes much differently than the world out side. "You come into the university expecting to find an ideal situation," he says...
...Committee of Eight, which in 1938 exhorted the University to "make a conscious effort to offset the natural tendency to academic isolation and the narrow perpetuation of its own internal tradition." That charge is an anachronism, and this report says that the University must consolidate its strengths rather than expand in a futile attempt to cover all fields of scholarship...
...there is one punch at Cambridge mingled with this praise and encouragement. The report calls the quality of Cambridge high schools at present "unsatisfactory" and recommends that the University expand its loan program to provide money for Faculty who want to send their children to a private secondary school. The loan program, by subsidizing local private schools, could have the same effect as establishing a University school. This change, together with University building on its Shady Hill property, might concentrate a bit more of the Harvard population in Cambridge...
...when it becomes operative, will be rather restricted. There will probably be some board, consisting of both permanent and elected members, to regulate the extension of SDR's as well as explicit regulations limiting the circumstances under which they may be extended. But the institution, once started, will steadily expand in both the scope and depth of its power; the circumstances will not have to be quite so special, and the limit on drawing will be raised...