Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the President has reversed his priorities. He has placed his chamber of auras ahead of the quality of undergraduate education and architectural excellence. At the north end of the Yard he has slated Hunt Hall, once home of the Fogg and now relieving the congestion of an overcrowded department...
SOYLENT GREEN is not a park outside London, but a foodstuff supposedly manufactured from high-energy plankton. It is the very staff of life for the beleaguered citizens of smog-shrouded, dangerously overcrowded New York City in the year 2022, where there are nearly 200 murders a day and only...
The quota system now in use was developed in 1969 by a committee headed by Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House. Stewart said yesterday that according to the formula, quotas are based on the ideal number of students a suite will hold--one to a bedroom. The excess population is...
At work is a peculiar Gresham's law (bad drives out good) that was inadvertently set in motion in 1968 by the Federal Government's decision to cut research grants and fellowships. It caused prestigious universities, which already were caught in a budget squeeze, to reduce graduate enrollments...
Unfortunately, the committee's recommendations that neither departments nor the admissions committee screen prospective med school applicants by any formal procedure, and its lack of recommendations regarding demands imposed on resource-deficient science departments implicitly endorses screening on the basis of grades received in very overcrowded basic pre-med courses...