Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This April, the Pacific will have its first jet airliners. The planes-two British-built Mark I Comets-will be operated by Canadian Pacific Air Lines, Canada's No. 1 private air service. (The larger Trans-Canada Air Lines is government-owned and subsidized.) Last week the company inaugurated its first direct service between Vancouver and Honolulu. A new fleet of 50-passenger, four-engine DC-6Bs now makes the trip in 12| hours, cutting almost six hours from the flight time of C.P.A.'s DC-45. In Honolulu, once C.P.A.'s jet liners are in service...
Provost Buck indicated last week that a "large sum" of the money gained from the increase would be used for larger scholarship funds. The University has not revealed the exact figures on just how much money will be added...
Because of this, a good number of PBH members are disturbed by the announcement that the new University Professor of Christianity will chart Brooks House policy to a much larger extent then the Chairman of the PBH Advisory Board did in past years. Partly, this furrowing of brows is the natural suspicion of any change. But it is also a sincere, though somewhat automatic, response to a seemingly added dose of the denominational in the Brooks House...
...actually, repeated experience has shown the Coop's fears as largely groundless. Especially in the larger courses, the demand tramples the supply, and students yearly mark academic time while new books wend their way Cambridge-wards...
...recent tuition rise, especially considering the un-conscionable form it has taken, presents a capital problem in the economics of modern education. It is on this larger question, rather than on such too-obvious injustices as the football-tax and the $200 kick-back to be exacted from teaching fellows, that I should like to comment...