Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expand, with obvious effects on intellectual life and the development of the individual student. The bigger we get, beyond a certain size, the more we lose the sense of the whole, the more we retreat into our specialties, our departmentalizes, our little personal refuges, the harder it is to maintain any sense of unity, of follow ship, of community, the more difficult it will be for the single human being in his full individuality, the Harvard man, old-style, to count. We turn things over to the IBM machines and the formulas...
...expand by 25 per cent do we increase the faculty, including full professors, by 25 per cent, and if so, how much will this cost with $400,000 now required to endow a chair? How much more scholarship endowment will be needed to maintain the present ratio of scholarship holders? At least two more Houses would be needed, at $5,000,000 a piece or more. Where do we put all these now Houses? Lamont is jammed now. Do we build another Lamont, and if so where do we put it? Do we build a second Indoor Athletics Building...
...years ahead it will almost certainly be impossible to maintain even the present uneven quality of Teaching Fellows. In the next fifteen years there will be a terrific shortage of college teachers. It will be a seller's market for them and anyone who meets even the minimum qualifications for teaching at Harvard will have better offers elsewhere. Just as serious, for the same reason it will be far more difficult than at present to keep the best and most experienced of our junior faculty, the Instructors and Assistant Professors. Who then will staff our Sections and provide tutorial instruction...
...possible that adequate teachers, of Harvard quality, can be found but it will be expensive. Which raises the important question of how much expansion would cost and where the money would come from. First, however, we must face realistically the question of how much is needed just to maintain Harvard quality for the present sized Harvard...
...Yardlings ensured their fourth consecutive win only near the end of the game, as the scrappy B.C. team gave them the first real challenge of the season. The Terriers were ahead in the second period 2 to 1 and managed to maintain a 4-4 tie well into the third...