Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over salami sandwiches and coffee, talk of logic machines and rocket fuels filled the evenings of the members of the "Speculative Society." During the succeeding years, the Society met now and then, here and there, discussing this and that...
...large number of "members" for whom there is no place in the House. Upperclass students have backed up into the Yard. They fill not only the Houses and Claverly Hall, but now also the Freshmen's Wigglesworth Hall. There is an immense backlog of building need here to be met. One House immediately, two more as quickly as they can be had, and, as well, increased dormitory space for Freshmen, are required to resolve this critical situation. In my judgment these are minimum requirements if we are to return to the best educational use of the House system. A House...
...faculty offices and studies, and of rooms for small classes. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has virtually doubled in size during the past twenty-five years, and yet, because of the press of other needs, the problem of additional office and study space has had to be met again and again by inadequate improvisation. And a strictly academic want, possibly overshadowing all others in this area, is for increased endowment for the Library, the center of both College and University and the chief resource for the activity of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For many people its great...
...would make the same statement with even more vigor today, for in our generation the difficulties of financing higher education have increased substantially. Twenty-five years ago income from that part of Harvard's endowment fund which belongs to the College met 47 per cent of the cost of operating the College. Last year this income met less than 27 per cent of these costs. Though the amount of endowment has considerably increased and the income from it has doubled in twenty-five years, the significant fact is that during this period the costs of operating the College have quadrupled...
Humanities 2 will now meet in Sanders Theater for the first time since the Memorial Hall fire, Registrar Sargent Kennedy announced yesterday. Another change will locate Humanities 5 in New Lecture Hall, where Humanities 2 formerly met...