Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosovsky claims that "the number of students is not really related to the quality of education." He may be right, but it is expansion of that number which is forcing--at last--the issue of the quality of undergraduate education.
This is the second part of a series on Harvard's possible expansion.
Vellucci had just delivered another one of his long, impassioned speeches about the evils of Harvard expansion in Cambridge. This time he said he was incensed over a 1965 land deal between the city and Harvard that allowed the University to obtain public land for the construction of the pedestrian...
The mere suggestion that Harvard might "expand" never fails to arouse Vellucci's emotions and to provoke the ire of local tenant and neighborhood groups who fear the University will somehow infringe on their privacy. Several prominent Cambridge citizens interviewed recently demanded "greater sensitivity" from University officials who might be...
"The construction of a new dorm in the Mather-Leverett-Peabody area would make people feel like Harvard was almost in their living room," Bowyer said. "Harvard expansion there is not a question of aesthetics. It's a matter of a psychological effect on the Riverside community. People will begin...