Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today a behemoth University negates the real potential of Harvard's seven Houses, and unless well-planned efforts are made, the situation will grow worse as the University grows larger. It remains to be seen whether President Pusey's Administration will choose, or be able, to make those efforts...
...Just Think." Although far from finished, the Ohio study has already furnished strong evidence of the power of the immune reaction in healthy subjects. (Researchers knew beforehand that similar injections into cancer victims would "take" and grow like their own disease.) To date, none of the prisoner-volunteers, the first healthy human beings ever to agree to such rigorous cancer experiments, have shown any sign of developing the disease. Implants not removed surgically have disappeared spontaneously in the maximum of a month's time...
...onetime professor of education at Stanford, Leonard became president of San Francisco State College in 1945. moved his 800 students from four drab buildings in downtown San Francisco to a modern $18 million campus near Lake Merced, saw enrollments rise to 9,200, the prestige of his college grow to such an extent that the California legislature has just okayed a $14 million expansion program. At Beirut (2,040 students at university level) he will face even bigger problems. The A.U.B. (which has produced such statesmen as Lebanon's Foreign Minister Charles Malik, and former Prime Ministers Mohammed Fadil...
...ambitious young idealist comes to Washington with An Idea. A humanitarian botanist, he has developed a new kind of soil in which vegetables grow to enormous size. He merely needs a rather amusing ingredient. "I turn gold into dirt," he explains. And, not only as the central issue for a comedy, this is quite a pleasant idea...
...letter sent last week to contributors to the fund, O'Brian said that "although the Divinity School must continue to grow and will later doubtless need additional endowment, the $7 million represents the achievement of our immediate goal and we can rejoice that our campaign is over...