Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although any increase in the size of the undergraduate body would necessitate a larger faculty, Smithies felt, the College would "always be able to maintain a first-class teaching staff, no matter what its size is." He noted that his department has to turn away many qualified students each year who want to do graduate work in preparation for a teaching career...
Residents left Holden permanently by mid-century, moving to the newer and larger dormitories. For the next fifty years the building played host to carpenters, clubs, choirs, lecturers, and the dramatic society. But when World War I began, Holden changed from a half-empty storehouse to the busy center for the Student Army Training Corps. In the last war it was a distribution depot for naval supplies...
...illegal signing of false names in order to remove library books for indefinite lengths of time has been a constant problem, Dean Leighton stated. "The number of books missing at present, however, is no larger than it has been in the past...
When the Government ended educational benefits for persons entering the Armed Forces after January 31, 1955, it brought to a close one of the most successful methods devised for extending college training to a larger portion of the population. Federal aid to veterans has by now become accepted as a just return for service during a national emergency--an emergency that still exists and that still demands a G.I. Bill of Rights...
Saltzman praised the Wriston committee's proposal for the integration of the foreign service with civil service employees as a solution to another of the former's immediate problems; that of creating a larger and more competent diplomatic corps. He predicted that if the plan is carried out the openings in the field would increase to 400 or 500 annually...