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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moley apparently forgets that Harvard is an institution for higher education, not an academic subordinate of the ADA. If Mr. Moley's standards were to be followed, material success and public acclaim would be the only criteria to be utilized in choosing lecturers, and students would be safely inculcated with whatever viewpoint the contemporary majority holds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Open Mind | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...sliced the coops' rate increase to 27½%, suggested other revenue by increasing rates on power supplied to private power companies. He also demanded that a 30-year contract between Southwestern Power and the Reynolds Metals Co., fashioned by Truman Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman, be renegotiated to allow higher rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Look at Interior | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Student tickets at reduced prices are no longer available, but general admissions tickets will go on sale at regular prices on Feb. 25. Exceptional demand for the tickets made necessary the early application date and higher student prices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Game Tickets | 2/23/1957 | See Source »

...first place, the University is beginning to feel responsible for the wellbeing of the nation. It no longer believes that a University is exclusively a center of higher learning. It sees itself as an educational institution, and recognizes that the country is more and more dependent on the university to protect it from cultural oblivion. The growth of technocracy has thrown an evergrowing proportion of the populace into the arms of the university, and given it the chance to leave a permanent mark...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Creative Writing Comes of Age at Harvard | 2/19/1957 | See Source »

...admission of an unusually small freshman class in September will eliminate some of the most congested conditions in the Houses next fall. A few of the double beds will disappear, and a few more students will have private bedrooms. For this privilege they will pay higher room rents. As crowding is further decreased, rents will rise even more precipitously. The cost of maintaining the House is not substantially decreased by reducing its population, but as the number of people who divide the expense diminishes, we will find ourselves paying more for our rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Price Gracious Living? | 2/19/1957 | See Source »

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