Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Issued by a distinguished Committee to Visit Harvard College, the report recommended: "that Harvard College should grow in response to the pressure of population; that the recruitment of faculty, in particular younger faculty and tutors, be urged forward; and that adequate new housing for both freshmen and upperclassmen be started soon to meet the fast-growing needs of a greater Harvard College...
...persuaded that Harvard ought to--and almost surely will-grow substantially in size in response to the numbers of young people seeking admission. . . . We are moved less by the fact of Harvard's growth in the past than by our sense that the educating large numbers of our young people is so enormous and no important to our country that no college for whatever reason, call afford to stand aside. . . . We hope that Harvard makes plans to add two or three Houses, and that the necessary advance steps are taken to build these Houses and to staff them, before...
...fast should the College grow...
...great extent," the Committee stated, "this growth depends on the problem of getting enough good teachers." Arguments that classes or departments may grow too large should not stand in the way, it reported, as these problems can be solved. "But it will not be easy to get all the good teachers we need. . . . We suggest that it is time for the colleges to join forces for a general attack on the problem of recruiting young men as teachers...
...should the problem of crowding in the Yard be overlooked. The Committee raised the eventual possibility that the freshman class may grow so large that it will no longer be able to be handled effectively as a unit...