Word: formful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first job was with the Central Housing Committee, trying to formulate a national housing policy and to set up machinery for its administration. After two years in Washington, he toured the country with two others on a Social Science Research Council grant, preparing a report on the city manager form of government...
Richard E. Barringer '59, former Committee chairman, cited Lehman's limited capacity for residential students and its distance from the Houses as reasons for the adverse reaction. The new building, if constructed on the already purchased land on the corner of Plympton and Mt. Auburn Sts., would form a "quadrangle" with Quincy House...
...combining individual departments into a broad discussion group, non-Honors students in these fields, who now number about one-third of all students in a House, would actively participate in some form of the tutorial program. At present, these first two plans exclude the sciences and smaller fields such as Classics, which already have close student-faculty contact...
...second plan, essentially a modification of the first, envisions a voluntary "House Honors" program for those non-Honors Seniors who nevertheless wish to continue some form of tutorial. The plan assumes that a large portion of non-Honors students, often with sound reasons, simply do not want to take up the burden of extended research in some narrow, particular field, but still do not desire the anonymity of large courses. These groups would be organized on a House basis, with certification of "House Honors" placed on the degree...
...share of the shareholders' money was devoted to his mistress, Actress Josie Mansfield, while other spoils went to buying and renovating Pike's Opera House on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue for the company's head offices; there business mixed with pleasure in the form of such Fiskal attractions as "THE DEMON CAN-CAN . . . 100 BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADIES . . . Contains Nothing Objectionable." Finally Fisk was probably the only colonel (of New York's 9th National Guard Regiment) and admiral (of his own steamboats) to wear diamond-studded uniforms and command the rare title of "Mr. Director-Admiral...