Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These measures included a 15 percent rent hike and cutbacks in secretary and lower echelon faculty personnel. Such adjustments in the University's budget will save it $500,000 or $600,000 a year. If a normal (a little over 4300) number of students registers next September, some of the planned personnel reductions will probably have to be abandoned...
...distinguished, unrelated Lewises, they picked Cecil (C. Day Lewis, the poet) over Clive (C. S. Lewis, the Anglican theologian, author of the Screwtape Letters), 194 votes to 173. Neither candidate seemed to be pining for office. C. S. Lewis (TIME Cover, Sept. 8, 1947) was off on a long hike; C. Day Lewis was having a drink in his London flat...
National and College scholarship applications for the classes of 1952 and 1953 were all due before the rent hike was announced. Consequently, students had no basis for figuring an increase in their estimated expenses for the coming year...
Student reactions to the proposed 15 percent hike in room rents and the porter plan varied from "unfortunate but necessary" to "it's a ridiculous, escapist plot," in a CRIMSON sampling taken last night...
Possibilities of a room rent hike for next year were also clouded by the national freeze order. During the World War II price control era, rates charged by such non-profit institutions as colleges, escaped restriction. The new authority is not committed to follow any precedents...