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Word: lowe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Given the rising rents, many of the low-income, particularly the elderly, residents of the City are faced with a dismal choice-stay in Cambridge and pay high rents or move away, breaking ties which often extend over several generations...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Not Everyone in Cambridge Likes Harvard As Change Comes-Agonizingly-to the City | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...Stop Harvard Expansion which-although they made good reading for Marxist Leninists-probably wouldn't have helped the housing situation all that much. More than two thousand "moderate" students. in the course of a mass meeting at Soldier's Field passed a different set of demands: for construction of low-income housing in the City and then went back to their rooms little if any wiser about Cambridge than when they had come...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Not Everyone in Cambridge Likes Harvard As Change Comes-Agonizingly-to the City | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...Harvard Administration for its part moved to defuse the agitation-both within and outside of the University-by agreeing to lessen the pressure on the local housing market by developing a program of housing for Harvard personnel and low-income community residents. The details of the program are due to be released early this Fall...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Not Everyone in Cambridge Likes Harvard As Change Comes-Agonizingly-to the City | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

Look at the construction of low-income housing for an example. Though Harvard may want to build 300 units of housing on a given site, the neighbors of that site may not want low-income housing there. Given the right political atmosphere, they can block the zoning changes needed to build the housing. In fact, during the past five or ten years, proposed public housing sites have been turned down again and again after meeting with neighborhood opposition...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Not Everyone in Cambridge Likes Harvard As Change Comes-Agonizingly-to the City | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...computed for all applicants to the college and ranges from 1.4 to about 7. "The lowest I've ever seen is 7.1," Fred L. Glimp, Dean of College and former Dean of Admissions, said, "And that's a heck of a low PRL." Ratings from 1.5 to 2.4 are a prediction for group two performance: from 2.5 to 3.4 for group three...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: PRL: It Is a Secret Number That Predicts Just How Well You Are Supposed to Do Here | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

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