Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the city began to expand, it never had to worry about sites for new schools. One 292-acre tract cost...
...undergraduates plus x numbers of additional Radcliffe and graduate and law and business and divinity and education and design students? What will further expansion do to the whole tone and quality of Harvard life? Pressure, impersonality, bureaucracy, mass-production and big business methods, all will eventually expand, with obvious effects on intellectual life and the development of the individual student. The bigger we get, beyond a certain size, the more we lose the sense of the whole, the more we retreat into our specialties, our departmentalizes, our little personal refuges, the harder it is to maintain any sense of unity...
...expand by 25 per cent do we increase the faculty, including full professors, by 25 per cent, and if so, how much will this cost with $400,000 now required to endow a chair? How much more scholarship endowment will be needed to maintain the present ratio of scholarship holders? At least two more Houses would be needed, at $5,000,000 a piece or more. Where do we put all these now Houses? Lamont is jammed now. Do we build another Lamont, and if so where do we put it? Do we build a second Indoor Athletics Building...
...through the development of tu- torial instruction, general examinations and the Houses, whereas now we are contemplating expansion which, in my view, would almost certainly move us in the opposite direction. This is, of course, the heart of the problem, and if it can be proved that we can expand and still give a student body of the quality of ours the quality of education it deserves, then the argument is over...
...used with equal force for adding another 1,000 and then another and another. Where do we stop? Somewhere I trust. But after all there will be two and a half million more students in college by 1970 they say and the pressure to expand will be continuous...