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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apathy, the Council's "poor reputation from previous years," and "fear of too much work" were cited by Council officials as possible reasons for the small number of petitions turned in. Although the Council's past election records are nuclear, one member admitted that this may be "one of our worst showing in recent years...
Plans for deconversion of some suites in all House except Quincy would reduce, from four to three, the number of students now living in a "converted" three-bedroom unit. Since World War II space deficiency has compelled the House to place an excessive amount of students in each suite...
...second concern of the representatives was the high number of standardized tests secondary school students must take...
Shortly before Buttrick came to Cambridge, President Pusey asked a number of distinguished guest preachers for the Spring term to cancel their Sunday visits to memorial Church, so that Buttrick (called by Life magazine one of the nation's "ten greatest preachers") could deliver most of the sermons, and give the Services "Continuity...
...from decline and restore it once more to the first ranks of U.S. finance. Less than a year ago, J. P. Morgan & Co. was in tenth place among New York commercial banks and 28th in the U.S. It was hard pressed for enough money to lend its rapidly increasing number of customers. Then Alexander pulled off a coup that Wall Street dubbed "Jonah swallowing the whale." He worked out a merger with the much larger Guaranty Trust Co., became the head of the fifth largest U.S. bank.-Overnight his bank's capital funds jumped from $89 million...