Word: mason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That suave soul John Mason Brown last spring was heard to say "at least half of Harvard's undergraduates will admit reluctantly that they write poems." Identity, whose editor James Manchester Robinson is not a Fifth Avenue preacher as you might expect but is, rather, a vigorous undergraduate about the Square, promises give light to Harvard's reluctant poets in their dark corners or wherever they...
...night builders and obsolete housing codes that often worked to restrict better homes were partly to blame for such conditions. But the major responsibility lay in Government appraisal practices, which set the standards for the industry, and which Mason has worked to change. Rules for figuring mortgages are often drawn in terms of the cheapest material available. Thus, as far as getting a mortgage is concerned, it makes little difference whether a builder puts in a 20-year furnace for $350 or a $275 job that wears out after five years. The builder is free to add quality features...
Four out of five new homes awaiting sale today are not quality but minimum houses, stripped-down models designed for the null family. Yet into this classification fit only 45% of U.S. families and they are steadily diminishing in number. Last December FHA Chief Mason noted that buyers were putting less than a fifth of their incomes into shelter...
...this, says Mason, is part of a housing revolution that buyers, builders and manufacturers must support. Up to now, many builders who added extra features to their houses failed to attract buyers because they had not been educated to recognize quality. Manufacturers of building materials have also stressed cost, rather than quality, even though they would all benefit from better homes. By emphasizing quality, they could attract more buyers to the market, help step up the yearly building rate from the present 1,117,000 to the 1,400,000 most experts think the U.S. needs...
Radcliffe's 80th academic year began yesterday at the college's Formal Opening exercises in the Congregational-Presbyterian Church. Seniors, wearing their caps and grows for the first time, stopped traffic on Mason St. as they led the academic procession from the Radcliffe Yard into the church...