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Word: overcrowdedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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One did not have to look far to find the pale, undernourished look of an ex-occupant of the German concentration camp. Two Czech students bore with them the unmistakable back of the tubercular victim. In a country where 40% of the former members of concentration camps suffer from serious...

Author: By Douglass Cater, | Title: Russian, French, Moslem Students Make Congress Colorful Gathering | 10/9/1946 | See Source »

Among the issues to be considered by the sub-committees are the distinction between the A.B. and S.B. degrees, the value of the General Education courses now being offered and the chance for improvement in the present overcrowded survey courses. Easing of the language requirements for returning veterans, and the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Committees Branch Off From Council's Survey | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

The throngs at Memorial Hall will be only a foretaste of what a bustling, overcrowded Harvard must face during the next few years. 2000 incoming freshmen and returning veterans will find queues, chowlines and packed classrooms as much a part of undergraduate life as the waning tutorial system and the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flooded but Fair | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

Overcrowded classes--and they will be large--will be the toughest problem. But where 500 men sit dociley in a lecture course and scribble the crumbs that come at them thrice weekly, only a few actually make personal contact with the men on the podium or at the desk and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flooded but Fair | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

Oregon's board of education quickly approved the Epler summer school, just as quickly approved Epler's bid to keep Vanport Center College open next fall-as an accredited junior college. Last week Epler had 577 applications for the new term, and more were coming in every mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Vanport Idea | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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