Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thoughtfully into the future at Milwaukee last week and squarely faced some of the problems confronting him when he takes office next month. One of the most pressing, and at the same time most difficult to solve, is that of maintaining the mature calibre of student that the veteran influx has brought to the Yard. Only 150 veterans are entering in the Summer and Fall terms and the vast flood of applicants that engulfed University Hall a year ago will soon dwindle to the lesser flow of former years in the absence of GI subsidies and with the pressure...
...chairs vacant since just before the war and in the small number of students that can be admitted. The tuition fee of $75 per term is not nearly enough to cover costs. Consequently, total enrollment is only 125--actually the largest in recent years, because of an influx of 25 former Army and Navy chaplains, but low in comparison to the schools at Yale and Chicago and to Union Theological Seminary, affiliated with Columbia...
...influx has brought problems. Pickpockets (mostly adolescent) are a nuisance. Pimps and prostitutes are on the increase. A score are arrested daily and one bold baggage was caught with a monk who had rented a hotel room for an unmonkish purpose. On West Lake, that lovely shallow blue pool, girt by green hills, watched by graceful pagodas and crossed by willow-draped causeways and moon-bridges, sampans drift full of rubber-necking tourists, earnest young intellectuals, tired officials and fat merchants on holiday. Lolling in one, with the tolling bells of distant temples in your ears and a book...
When the armed services moved out of the Houses in 1946, he said, the University concentrated its maintenance work on getting the rooms ready for the influx of students that followed on the heels of demobilization. Now, he added, funds are available for "something above the normal run of maintenance and repairs...
When wartime brought an influx of Negroes and Southern whites to Los Angeles' Fremont High School, Principal Herbert Wood knew he was in for trouble. He did what he could by instructing his faculty to teach race tolerance. He also braced himself for an explosion. Last week it came...