Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equipment. But building Devens College permanently into a four-year institution would not be practical; an engineering plant for third- and fourth-year students would soon be idle and obsolete, or Massachusetts would be supporting a poor duplicate of the Massachusetts State College at Amherst. The alternative is to expand M.S.C. into a college that will be able to handle the large future demand for State education. Not only would long-run costs be smaller, but the last two years of college could be given more effectively at an established institution...
...doing a good job. But now that CAB's policies were being strongly tested for the first time, they were not so certain. One big trouble seemed to be CAB's policy of making "big ones out of little ones" -i.e., encouraging the overanxious smaller lines to expand too fast, and often giving parallel routes when there is not enough traffic to support them...
...mostly Seniors, interviewed during the last year were about all its one Director and two Executive Secretaries could handle. If more Sophomores and Juniors are to use the facilities of the Office, which they should do if they want to reap the greatest gains, it must expand its size to absorb them. And it must also expand its aims with an eye to getting more students actual jobs, if Harvard graduates are to keep step with the horde of graduates from other colleges throughout the country...
...classroom application, the General Education Program has sprung at last from the pages of the Harvard Report to become an accepted college institution. The first major change in the elective system since President Lowell's regime, the new Program has passed its first test and starting next fall, will expand from its present nucleus of eight general courses, limited to Freshmen and Sophomores, to a comprehensive department, embracing many fields and open to all four classes...
Representing the only collegiate organization to testify before the committee, Schwebel will testify that his organization urges even greater power for the ITO than already is planned. The stated purpose of the proposed charter is to expand world trade by raising trade barriers and other distributes on international trade...