Word: livings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been slowly falling to pieces for years. The wood construction of the first floor had been replaced with concrete and steel during Teddy Roosevelt's administration. The third floor had been similarly rebuilt in 1927. But the timbers of the second floor, where Presidents and their families live, had been left unchanged - a fact which prompted Franklin Roosevelt to install a canvas chute, down which he could have plummeted to the lawn, if fire broke...
...added, 100,000 people draw their drinking water from hydrants in the yard and use outdoor privies. There are almost 6,000 communities in the U.S. with no public water system, more than 9,000 without sewerage systems; in 8,300 communities, where some 70 million people live, there are no modern facilities for collecting and getting rid of garbage...
...House system was designed to correct this condition. It would bring together various types of students, give them a chance to meet faculty members who would also live in the House, and supply undergraduates better housing and food than they could get taking potluck in Cambridge...
...Westward Movement in the U. S.--has attracted probably the largest number. Merk, whose course consistently wins "most important single item" votes from Niemans, sees their value to the University in a broader sense: "Their contribution to Harvard is their contact with undergraduates, who meet imaginative and live people doing reporting...
...caused by proctoring or by the feeling of suspicion if one leaves the exam. "We are proud of this honor system privilege as it distinguishes Radcliffe from other schools and from Harvard," she said. "Ours is a mature type of exam because it approximates the manner in which we live after college...