Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Needless to say, this choice has not been accepted meekly by many of the older residents. Since a survey in the summer of 1968 by the local antipoverty agency showed that 57 percent of the 2000 elderly residents contracted paid over half their income for rent the "housing crisis" has become a prime issue in local politics...
...that time, the library had about 125,000 volumes. It has since grown to almost half a million overflowing the space within Houghton itself and spilling into one of the lower levels of Lamont. The Harvard Library Committee is now in the process of trying to raise $5 million for the underground library expansion in the area between Widener, Houghton, Lamont and President Pusey's house. Two of the projected four floors will go to Houghton and, with luck, fill its space needs on into...
Houghton, in other words serves an international community. As many as half of the people, who annually use the library, have no connection with Harvard. To them, for a small charge, the Houghton readily makes its resources available...
...feature of this flavor is Style, Girls who adopt it are sometimes thought of as the Radcliffe stereotype, and probably give wholesome Harvard freshmen from Iowa their first proof that the East is indeed strange looking. Greek shoulderbags are extremely popular, as are ski jackets, black tights. pierced ears, half high heels, scarves around their neck, long unpolished fingernails, rain ponchos, jewelry, and long hair. The most well-dressed of them imitate a European sort of gray-beige expensive simplicity: the sloppy ones wear skipolo shirts and dungarees and can be called (to their probable distain) "hip.". They have generally...
...half and two and a half...