Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the traditional time lag, basketball's nation-wide growth the popularity are finally being reflected at Harvard. The latest in a series of moves designed to build New England's own game into the College's third-ranking major sport came last week with Coach Bill Barclay's announcement that basketball's first spring practice would begin shortly after the season's close. These sessions will be by invitation only, to compete as little as possible with the spring talent search conducted by Harlow and the spring sports. None the less, they were hailed by Barclay as a welcome...
Natural Sciences 11a. The Growth of the Experimental Sciences (fall term). President Conant and Assistant Professor Fletcher Watson...
...consequently well backed up by statistics. It suffers only slightly from the dry jargon of academic economics. He sets up the proposition that within the next two years the American economy will face a serious set-back, thanks to the lack of profitable investment outlets, the continued growth of monopoly, and the lack of purchasing power in the lower income brackets. His six point program to avert the crisis reads like a liberal's dream, but in the face of Republican control of Congress it is inappropriately the position of the proverbial snowball...
Third of Campbell's proposals urges the new Council president to work for closer organization of Council activities. "Because of the recent enormous growth of the student organization's scope," Campbell said, "it is vital that the new president place present duties on a sound footing before assuming any new ones not absolutely necessary...
Although the growth of the college would have scaled the doom of the small University Hall Commons sooner or later, the immediate cause of its end was a growing tendency on the part of students to eat elsewhere as often as possible, and when they did chance to dine in Commons, to treat it as a sort of unofficial playground and circus area. The whole early history of the building's first floor features rebellion and riot, which started on a major scale in 1818, when food war broke out between classes. Each class ate in a different room...