Word: needing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory, of course, there is no need for commuters to be separated from the resident students. For a decade or so, a few Administration officials have suggested that commuters should be made non-resident members of resident houses. The proposal has been rejected repeatedly for two practical reasons: commuters themselves do not want amalgamation with other Houses, and the Masters feel that non-resident members would put an unacceptable burden on the already overloaded Houses...
...could be used for expansion or deconversion, but commuters could be brought in without increasing crowding. In fact, the money which would otherwise be spent for a commuter center could be devoted to enlarging the present dining halls or building adjoining smaller rooms, and few other alterations would be needed: lockers would be installed, and a suite might be set aside for overnight use of commuters, but present use of the Dudley facilities suggests that not even the libraries would need to be expanded...
...areas which the Peabody Museum has done over completely, such as the Copan exhibits, many details need improvement, especially the casts of steles and the unmarked cases of Nicaraguan ceramics. The specialist's rooms have taken so long to rearrange that their usefulness as educational exhibits is disturbed for an unreasonably long period of time. In the areas that the Peabody can revise only when it gets the proper funds, such as the African and Oceanic halls, the present state is deplorable and quite untenable...
Granting scholarships and loans to students on the basis of "need," as presently defined, is often unfair, Louis A. Toepfer, vice-Dean of the Harvard Law School, asserted yesterday...
...worst features of the present "needs" test, Toepfer remarked, is that it can penalize the thrifty. If a family scrimps and sacrifices to save money for the children's education, it may show less "need" for assistance than the family which spends most of its available income on a better house or automobile...