Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University on the account of the Houses was something over $53,000; next year, it will be somewhat larger because of the reduction in rents. In view of this, a partial solution to the problem is obvious, if a trifle Utopian: those who can afford more than the maximum set down on their applications should signify that capability. The other side of the question, namely, that presented by the rooms in the upper price brackets, a number of which never have been filled, and are not filled now, is not so evident of solution...
...work, basing their schedule on the talents of an ideal experimenter rather than on those of the average burdened pre-medical student; or they have bowed to the University law which permits no course to have more than six hours of laboratory travail per week, placing this maximum figure in the catalogue, when in actual practice it is the minimum for a genius. This six-hour law was enacted lest a course require more of a student than should be credited to a single course...
...preliminary estimates of the committee, based on the number of men now living in College dormitories, indicated a maximum application of about 770. The fact that the actual applications have exceeded that number shows that several Freshmen now living at home have applied for admission to the Houses...
...less are considerably in excess of the number available, while the demand for rooms priced at above $260 is less than the supply. For this reason a notice was posted in the Union on Tuesday asking all Freshmen who could afford to do so, to increase their stated maximum rental to include rooms priced above $260. Even when students cannot raise their maximum above $260, they are urged to relieve the demand for rooms at the lowest prices, by increasing the maximum amount by as much as they can afford. It was pointed out that men who complied with...
...less than the actual number of applications. With allowance for men who will not return to college next year, the Committee expects to be able to assign all of the remaining applicants to rooms in the Houses, provided a sufficiently large number of men increase their maximum rentals to include the rooms above...